these idioms and colloquial phrases sometimes sound completely ludicrous out of context, but many of them have very real and amazingly explainable origins.
In Search of Papa’s Hungarian Goulash
My grandfather didn’t come home with much after WWII. What he did come home with was a very particular set of skills. Skills he acquired over
Hal Smith: More than Otis
A lot of people from my generation and older grew up watching The Andy Griffith Show. The show, packed with wholesome goodness, aired on CBS
Just in the Nick of Time: Revisited
While history is one of my favorite things, the history of language is the epicenter of my favorite historical things to explore. For about two
The Song Stuck in my Head: Miley Cyrus’s “Heart of Glass”
I don’t have the time to share every song that my eclectic music taste fancies; therefore, I don’t do music reviews. I make exceptions when
A Culture of Food: Spots for spot?
It happens to me every year around this time. On the side of almost every rural North Carolina coastal town, I see a sign: fresh
Fredric Baur: his creation is a curious casket
The 1960s was a decade that gave us a lot. The 60s brought us events that rocked our nation and world to the core and
