I admit I’m a bit of a CLEAN FREAK. I’m often PARANOID about picking up COOTIES from JUST ABOUT everywhere–on the train, in restrooms, from public computers, et al.–so I wash my hands often, probably more so than most people. I probably should LIGHTEN UP a bit; I guess I just think it’s BETTER TO… Read more »
Happy Fourth of July to all of you celebrating, wherever you are. Here are a few trivia questions that will give you A LEG UP on your knowledge of the history surrounding this holiday. See how many of them you already know without scrolling down for the answers or looking them up. A LEG… Read more »
Beautiful, but a source of allergy-causing pollen, which is supposedly much plentiful this year making the allergy season particularly brutal. I read today that allergy season here in #NYC is particularly rough this year because of the cold winter and the large amount of snow that we got. The cold temperatures delayed the ONSET of… Read more »
Miso soup with tofu, fish, vegetables, & rice and some hot water for dinner. Cutting back on my green tea consumption for now. I checked my blood pressure earlier today at a do-it-yourself health machine at Whole Foods. Unfortunately, my reading was slightly high, which meant I was borderline hypertensive again. I’d been working for… Read more »
If you know me, you know I’m not usually one to admit that I’m sick, but sometimes, you just can’t deny reality, can you? I’ve been feeling UNDER THE WEATHER (not well) for close to a week now. My throat started to feel SCRATCHY (a little sore) last Saturday, and I’ve been feeling like I’m… Read more »
I still have the morning fog that we had this past Thursday in mind and thought it would make a nice vocabulary lesson. First of all, I was running late and was in such a rush to catch my train that I didn’t notice that FOG had BLANKETED the area. It wasn’t until my train… Read more »
Blue moon over Brooklyn. This is the third full moon in a season with four full moons.There are two kinds of blue moons, & each kind by itself is quite rare, which is why wesay ONCE IN A BLUE MOON when we talk about something that very seldom happens. I was PSYCHED (excited) to learn… Read more »
Do you recognize the idiom in this cover headline? It’s a play on words. A STONE’S THROW AWAY means something is not far, or it’s very close. For example, you can say “The beach is just A STONE’S THROW AWAY from my house.” This story is about the city’s plans to replace the old, hand-cut… Read more »
The snow last night was definitely surprising. In the end, it wasn’t much & it was mostly gone in the morning, but I don’t think anyone expected this much accumulation this late in the season. Most of us are ready for warmer weather. Because it’s now the middle of March and just a couple of… Read more »
Pedestrians ON THEIR WAY to work on a rainy weekday morning in Midtown Manhattan hoping nothing gets IN THEIR WAY as they rush to their destinations. These two expressions, ON ONE’S WAY and IN ONE’S WAY, differ by just one preposition, but they are very different in meaning. When we say I’m ON MY WAY,… Read more »
