According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.

I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.

I do some eccentric dancing.