You Don’t Say!
Every generation has its peculiar slang expressions. When I was younger, sentences were sprinkled with the terms “groovy” and “far out.” (Okay, don’t laugh.) Recently, my daughter used a term for shoes that was new to me—kicks. Now, I’ve heard…
St. Anthony’s Fire
Sometimes words won’t go away. They rattle around in your brain until you’re forced to acknowledge them in some way. While reading the published journal of a Civil War nurse, I came across one of those words—erysipelas. Obviously a disease…