Everyone Should Be a Perpetual Student

Most of us have heard it at some time, usually from disgruntled family members or judgmental friends: “Oh, she’ll never be done with that or anything else. She’s a perpetual student!” Always the comment is pejorative, in intent if not in tone. The disapproval hangs in the air, the opinion … Read more…

Simple or Simple-Minded?

Should we feel insulted if someone has called us simple-minded? What’s in a word? Perhaps we should feel insulted. For such a simple word, there seems to be a range of definitions! The word simple by itself means something that is not hard to understand. Yet simple-minded can mean everything … Read more…

When Songs Get Stuck in our Heads

Ok, I’m going to date myself now. But I know some of my readers remember the fun song, Bimbo, that was first recorded by Jim Reeves, who later died in a private plane crash in 1964. I can’t quote too much of the song because “fair use” for the music … Read more…