I have been mostly retired for about the last three years. Unfortunately, I am not doing what I want with my retirement due to the confines of caring for my invalid wife. Still, I am making the best of it. I do not have near as much time in retirement as I thought I would and sometimes wonder where the time goes. A lot of my time goes to blogging. I have blogged for about twelve years, now. My blog, called A Disgruntled Republican , takes a lot of my time. Much of that time is simply devoted to being informed. One thing I have found in retirement is time to read at a more leisurely pace. I have read National Review most of my adult life, but always was behind on the reading and never took the time to read the "other" parts of the magazine. I would read the news analysis and feature articles, but seldom read the humor column or the book reviews or movie reviews. I don't think I had ever read until recently the "Arts and Manners" section....
Word of the day: scrum Context: The patrons have become self-conscious in their role-playing as Average American, trying to finish their cardboard waffles while the politicians go glad-handing from table to table surrounded by a scrum. Source: Vanity Fair , October 2018, p106, Twilight at the Diner by James Wolcott. Scrum: /skrəm/ , noun: scrum ; plural noun: scrums. 1. Rugby, an ordered formation of players, used to restart play, in which the forwards of a team form up with arms interlocked and heads down, and push forward against a similar group from the opposing side. The ball is thrown into the scrum and the players try to gain possession of it by kicking it backward toward their own side. Informal • British. a disorderly crowd of people or things Scrum also has an IT definition derived from the Rugby term. That definition is, "set of practices used in agile project management that emphasize daily communication and the flexible reassessment of plans t...
marcescent [ˌmärˈses(ə)nt] mar•ces•cent ADJECTIVE botany (of leaves or fronds) withering but remaining attached to the stem. withering but not falling off, as a part of a plant. marcescence [marcescence] DEFINITION noun form of marcescent Source: My sister Kathleen Williams used the word in conversation while we were taking a walk.
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