A friend or a pal… chum A chum is a friend or a pal. You and your best chums might spend the weekend camping together. The informal word chum is more common in Britain than the US, but you can still talk about your school chums or the new chum you made on a Caribbean cruise. Another kind of chum couldn’t…
My Mom decided to make an unleavened cake for Pesach/Passover which required grinding roasted hazelnuts into a fine powder… however, she left the mill on a few seconds too long and the nuts turned into a paste, much to her dismay… so she handed them to me and asked me to try and save them…
When you can’t or won’t believe something… incredulous If you are incredulous that means you can’t or won’t believe something. If you tell people about those aliens you met the other night, they’ll probably give you an incredulous look. Incredulous is the opposite of credulous, which means “believing too easily.” Both words come from the Latin word credere, which…
I’ve been thinking lately about anchors. I tried to trace this thought process back and I think it started when I was thinking about change. Change doesn’t have to have a negative connotation, but it can sort of knock you off course. There are those changes that are planned and known, and also those…
