Many years ago, I taught a session on how many of our popular sayings contradict one another and leave some people in a state of mass confusion. For instance, you have “birds of a feather flock together” and “opposites attract“. Both are correct in different contexts. Friends […]
Facebook, at work, on the highway. Everywhere I look I am bombarded with pithy sayings. I think these are meant to be motivational and encourage me to live a better, more fulfilled life. As a New York curmudgeon, I often scoff at such pithy, supposedly insightful bits. […]
Just beat it No one wants to be depleted Your contagious mediocrity is putrefying Your baseless arrogance is stupefying Your extreme pettiness is confining Your false alacrity is mystifying Your careless whisper is clarifying Your exemplary triteness is testifying Your jittery righteousness is unbecoming Your inharmonious sincerity is […]
Don’t stop believing Do you know the Journey song “Don’t stop believing“? It starts with a great keyboard riff and the lyrics of “Just a small town girl Livin’ in a lonely world She took the midnight train” It also is in our recent public consciousness as it […]
