Odds and Ends

This little guy made himself at home in the least likely of places. 🐸 The place you call home isn’t about the walls that were built around you, but about how you feel within them and where you feel happy and safe. Sign in to see full entry.

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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." The phrase is an idiom that is a reminder of how important it is to take care of our body and mind. The use of "ounce" and "pound" emphasizes the idea that small preventive steps can help you avoid big problems in the future. The phrase is... Sign in to see full entry.

I came across a rare find while searching through the YouTube Channel last night. I was looking for videos of the small towns surrounding Pittsburgh and came across my husband John's high school graduating class of '84. Better yet was that it was a slideshow video pieced together by one of his... Sign in to see full entry.

When I was a kid, I used to get accused of #19 by stepdad #3. I would dawdle when he wanted me to get a move on. 5, 8, 13, and 20 are words I am also familiar with. It is a big question mark when it comes to the remaining 35 strange English words. Sign in to see full entry.

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Most of us are familiar with Harrison Ford and his iconic roles in Star Wars, Blade Runner, and Indiana Jones. But before becoming the actor we know today, he had to face several hardships. When he moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s to pursue an acting career, he struggled to find work. So, to... Sign in to see full entry.

Commenting is one of the issues I have found on Blogit since yesterday, with dragging and snagging, and secondly, the pages are slow to load. In fact, the entire site is running at a snail's pace. It would appear that the new mobile-friendly layout upgrades may have something to do with the... Sign in to see full entry.

If you've ever wondered why a word is right there on the tip of your tongue, but escapes your brain at the most inconvenient time, this is why. Sign in to see full entry.

Grammarian Bill Walsh expressed his disdain as nicely as he could in his book Lapsing Into a Comma: "Word nerds have known since second grade that alright is not all right." While it is frequently used and seen, "alright" is technically not a single word but, rather, a shortened version of the... Sign in to see full entry.