Harold and Maude has been one of my more favored films for decades. Yes, Joan has many of Maude's same qualities. By the by, the word is bubbe , not bubble. It's a Yiddish term of endearment for a little grandmother. Although she IS a rather effervescent personality. If you enjoy Harold and Maude, y...

Indeed. Thanks. And so is Bubbe Joan, retired university librarian and everyone's favorite Jewish mother. She's feisty, generous of heart, attends the Unitarian Church to keep the lines of learning open, is a mainstay in a small Jewish community, and weighs about 89 pounds soaking wet (she also has ...

I posted elsewhere with another AgoraWord: a sweet 92-year-old friend, bubbe Joan, wished me "Gobble Tov!"

I've been an active environmentalist since the 1960s. While living in Idaho, the issues in that lovely but conservative state were many: abuse of public lands, mining, preserving air quality, endangered species, wilderness, wild rivers and water quality, dams and salmon habitat, etc. Those of us who...

To get back to the original today's Good Word, gobble:
A dear 93-year-old friend, Bubbe Joan, just last evening wished me "GobbleTov"!
Don't you love how language is fluid and inclusive and evolves?!

Thought it must be so - thanks.

Noting in the word history that English borrowed from the root "condite", "preserve or preserves": is the word "condiment", meaning preserves or pickled foods, related at all?

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To continue:
"Is that a fedora?"
"No. It'sa for me."

Nyuk nyuk nyuk. . .

Fedoras are cool and can be worn by male or female for a distinctive look. The also give rise to a very hoary "Italian"joke:
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It diminishes us all by more than one when someone like Susan Lister leaves us. Good language is the musical glue that binds us to real communication and better understanding. I send red cedar and sweet sage wishes to facilitate her passage.

So will I, MTC. If we don't like what they do, we can at least work hard to effect change with our voting process, without fear of being run down by a tank (so far). I lived many years ago for a short while in Taipei (not nearly so bad as PRC), and all of our mail we received was censored before it ...

Everything is relative. Your commentary illustrates that, MTC. All we mortal fools can do is to do the best that we can, be kind, daily tell those we love that we do love them, and try to teach our children and children's children the honor and dignity of treating others well and taking care of each...

In my long work life, I've never had a job where, if I didn't actually do the job I was assigned, I could keep the position, get paid too well, have multiple perks and side benefits, take prolonged vacations after months of non-productive blathering, and either die in the traces or retire (from what...

The question I always have is that our elected legislative bodies run a close second, why do we keep electing them? Ah. The question of the ages, Luke, probably unanswerable, except that lazy voters might figure prominently. Sound bytes are easier to latch onto than doing real research into who and...

Unfortunately, there is a very real place that borders on the verge of dystopianism (is that a word?) - our entire planet, if one can believe half of the news heard daily. Our elected legislative bodies run a close second. Any more, politics by its very nature could be a synonym for dystopia. I some...