Like my girls Sagan and Maggie, I am also fascinated with words.  One word that came up recently in my reading of The Bostonians (and then again in The Hazard of New Fortunes) in mountebank. A mountebank is a charlatan or, in most basic term,  a trickster.  This word was probably used so prominently during [...]

Hey guys!  Happy Saturday!  There are two things I want to share and, in the spirit of balance, one of them is brain food and the other is food food .  Heads or tails, shall we start with the brain food or tummy food?  *Waits for Whitey the cat to decide but all she gets [...]