“That’s a bunch of baloney!”  Have you ever told someone that?  The phrase is used negatively.  Why would we put one of America’s favorite sandwich meats into a negative statement?  Perhaps it would be best to understand how baloney is made. Before we explore this tasty meat, let’s answer a question that has plagued our… Read More »

“ Ripping off the Band-Aid” is an expression we use when sharing bad news with someone else.  Rather than beating around the bush, we just rip the Band-Aid off, giving the bad news quickly and directly rather than tiptoeing around it.  Supposedly, quickly and directly sharing bad news makes it easier to handle. A group… Read More »

“Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”  You’ve heard that phrase before, right?  Hopefully you didn’t learn about it first hand when a police officer pulled you over and you lamely said, “I didn’t know that I couldn’t do that.”  If you are planning to do any travelling, you might want to brush up on… Read More »

Every once in a while, I see some great theology on church signs.  There were a couple in our community last month that really stuck out to me.  The one had a grammatical error that actually reinforced the message.  The other was a play on words that drove home an impressive point.  Let’s consider them… Read More »

Some moments of history leave us baffled, scratching our heads.  One of those moments occurred on this day in 1888.  President Grover Cleveland wrote to the Senate:  “I return without approval Senate bill No. 739, entitled “An act granting a pension to Johanna Loewinger.” “The husband of the beneficiary named in this bill enlisted June… Read More »

Yesterday, we talked about eggs.  Let’s stay with that theme one more day and think about eggs in a common American idiom.  Someone who has just embarrassed themselves might be said to have egg on their face.  The source of the phrase is untraceable.  When such is the case, we are left to mere speculation… Read More »

Today is National Egg Day.  Try not to crack up laughing.  It’s no yoke!  I have really scrambled to find information about this celebration but I was starting to get a bit fried when no history could be found.  It really is National Egg Day – an egg-cellent celebration – and with my apologies for… Read More »

Change.  It’s inevitable, right?  Some change is good.  Other changes leave us perplexed.  We don’t have to live decades to see changes.  Some changes can happen in seconds – like the weather in Ohio!  And, whether or not this statement is factual, it is said that your computer is obsolete almost as soon as you… Read More »

Today is World Milk Day.  Let’s raise a glass of moo juice in celebration of Bessie and all her bovine relatives that give us this delicious beverage.  If it wasn’t for milk and its byproducts, what would we use to drench our cereal?  Where would we dunk our cookies?  What would be use to lighten… Read More »

In America, over 48 million people have hearing loss.  If you do the math, that is 14% of the 331.5 million population.  To put that into perspective, 23.2 million adults and nearly 10,000 children have been diagnosed with cancer.  That is 7% of the American population.  About 50% of both health issues are preventable. Today… Read More »