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 [...]

Ok, I’m not really going to pose naked for Glamour, but I got your attention, right?!
So unless you’ve lived under a rock, you heard all about the “model on page 194″ — Lizzi Miller who appeared nude in the back of Glamour Magazine. Her picture caused quite a stir as people debated semantics, [...]