Tag: commentary

Hope as a survival tool

We all have tool kits and boxes. I have a tool kit with screwdrivers, a hammer, nails and random wrenches from ikea. I note that because most people won’t think I have a toolbox. Many wouldn’t even believe I put my own bookshelf together. Well, besides literal tools […]

Long story short

I’m tired. There. Done. Need I say more? Probably. However, when we say “so, long story short” we usually say so after twenty minutes of talking. Right? Why can’t we say it and mean it? Maybe instead one should say “in summary”. I’m tired of a lot things […]

Good riddance: What a phrase

The year 2020 brought us many things. Fear, guilt, a pandemic, oily skin, social distancing, civil unrest, zoom, craft cocktails, and so forth. It also brought us new words such as quarantine pods. The year 2020 also got us bringing back and feeling old phrases of yore. For […]