Author, blogger, cat wrangler.
I mused on success recently, and while doing so I had a thought. Success is often personified as a woman, fickle and choosy, mysterious and aloof, other feminine words and synonyms, but I don't know about all that. Women are only "mysterious" because when we don't want the thing that men think we should want,… Continue reading Success Is A Fuckboi
I love language. The trivialities of linguistics, the odd words we use, how simple semantics can change entire meanings, dialects, colloquialisms: it's all awesome (except, I admit, there are some accents that I hate, but that's a whole other thing). English is remarkably complex and word-wealthy, borrowing from so many other languages and spreading across… Continue reading The Sportball We
My favorite euphemism was born one fine Sunday afternoon when a Jehovah's Witness came proselytizing at our door. Husband answered, intending to politely explain we were already zealously devoted to the Dark Lord, when the good Witness spotted one of our cats, Bartholomew. When Husband saw the man's eyes fall onto and then expand at… Continue reading Figure of Speech: Paradiastole
A.K. Caggiano 