Sometimes my writing is really just about the words, and ideas contribute nothing to the process. Today it would seem I am to be beleaguered by beetling b-e words. Which, having arrived uninvited with their behemoth footprints, their belligerent attitude, and their bellicose voices berating any delicacy of thought, I have organized into the following…
Metacognition – Thinking about thinking. I came across the word one day and apparently had way too much time on my hands … or more likely I had a boring to-do list for the day … because once I stopped to think about thinking, I found I had wasted the entire afternoon. In looking up…
Lately I have become aware of how the word fiddle can string you along. I already wrote about fiddle-dee-dee used as an expression of uselessness. But since then, I have become aware of its use in other strange curious circumstances, again having nothing to do with a fiddle being a string instrument. For instance, what…