I’ve always harbored a deep fascination with language.  Both the use of it and the very nature of it.  To think that we can expel a stream of breath, interrupted and shaped by our throats and lips, and that the resultant thing we call “speech” somehow conveys meaning!  And never mind the extremely high-speed mentation […]

Some years back, in my former life as a retail manager, I spent a beautiful spring week in sunny Los Angeles at a trade show.  I suppose it was beautiful…the vast majority of my time was spent on the floor of the convention center, and at the end of it all, the attendees were all […]