Someone used the term "mid-century modern" to describe some furniture at an estate sale. It is the year 2019 on the Gregorian calendar. I am living in the first half of the 21st century. This word makes no sense. I go look this up. From the WikiPedia entry: ... the design movement in interior, product, graphic design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1945 to 1975." What!!!?? I still don't understand.…
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I am not surprised to find that I disagree with Eric Kim.…
Language is impossible to nail down: any description can become a label, and any label can become a self-fulfilling inference. What these labels mean in society, hearts, and minds is more than the sum of their syntax.…
Yesterday my son, Shaan, and I had an interesting conversation about cake. It all started right after I got home. This weekend is Bhavna's birthday. She's "almost 50". That's how we've referred to our ages now that we are no longer "forty something". It's inaccurate but descriptive. We're celebrating at my sister-in-law's home and Shaan is sensitive to the fact that sometimes I feel left out of celebration because I won't eat the typical sugary cake. Shaan was excited because…
