Benjamin DreyerVerified account

Lecture others about words at your peril. I recall questioning my mother's reference to 'cambric tea' with 'You mean Cambridge tea?' She might as well have stuck out her tongue when she replied, 'You could look it up.'

In the other direction, someone recently suggested that I had made up the word 'kyriarchy' and that 'maybe he [me] meant "hierarchy"'—which meant that the person misread what I wrote /and/ misspelled it in a failed attempt to search for the word online. Oopsy.

You are saving my life right now. I left my Journalism degree to run off with my Chiropractor. 30 years and a divorce later, my University has graciously—they need the money—allowed me to return online, take four classes, and graduate this spring. I’m so stale, baby.

Er, that’s ‘Thirty’, isn’t it.