Word Wednesday - Pettifog

pettifog \ PET-ee-fog \  , verb;
1.To bicker or quibble over trifles or unimportant matters.
2.To carry on a petty, shifty, or unethical law business.
3.To practice chicanery of any sort.

Pettifog - While I understand your limited interest, don't pettifog all day. It is unbecoming.

Sunday Coffee Cup - The Wife's Mug

Share and share alike? Ha!

I don’t know about other men, but around my house I do exactly what I want to do (wait for it), just as soon as I find out from my wife what I want to do.

Honestly, my wife runs the home. She always has. I like it that way (repeats to self – “I like it that way”). It works. She has control of the entire house. I get to control the top of my dresser… and the nightstand by my quarter of the bed. Sound fair, doesn’t it? We most things by the proven mantra: “What’s hers is hers and what’s mine is hers too.”
Then there are the coffee mugs (pretty good transition if I do say so myself). I have full run of Sunday Coffee Cup choices. The entirety of the cupboard is my kingdom – except for two specific mugs. Today’s coffee cup is stolen, swiped, hijacked even, from the wife’s forbidden coffee ware.

 So, you can see I’m living on the edge today, taking a walk on the wild side, playing with fire, crushing the boundaries and putting it all on the line. Ha! Devil be dared!  I’m claiming my manhood and the full domain of my dwelling. This is my house!

Well, I have to go. There is just enough time to finish my coffee, wash and dry the mug and place it carefully back in the cabinet before I leave to meet my dear, loving and kind wife for lunch.

Shhhhhh.  You won’t tell, right?

Word Wednesday - ad rem

ad rem \ ad REM \  , adverb, adjective;
1.Without digressing; in a straightforward manner.

ad rem - adding no remnants of over used slogans or rhetoric, he composed a well crafted ad rem response.

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Sunday Coffee Cup - Crabby Mother

Some people are kind of crabby first thing in the morning. I remember my mother was (well, still is) one of those people. While most of the time my mother was one of the kindest, patient and loving people you would ever meet – not before she had had her morning coffee and cigarette.  The creature that preceded her caffeinated self was the very definition of “not a morning person." So ominous was her uncharacteristically grumpy self that my older brother got in the habit of perking the coffee for her each morning in hopes of hastening the process of her transformation to our loving mom.

Today’s Sunday Coffee Cup comes to us courtesy of my youngest step-daughter.   She returned from a beach trip one summer with this gift.

Although I pretty sure it was simply the obligatory gift for her mother (yes I did just say that), I have enjoyed it over the years as a reminder of my own mother’s Jeckle and Hyde morning coffee transformation – it makes me smile.

Inside Looking Out - Charleston, SC

TEDx at Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC

I have my reserved space! I registered today online for the February 25th TEDx right here in Winston Salem! TEDx,

What's TEDx? Well, directly from the TEDx website, "TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 26 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives." TEDx is a locally sponsored version of the event.

If you want to join me (and all the really erudite and cool people of the Triad, NC), you can register here: TEDx Wake Forest University. You can catch more on Twitter @TEDxWakeForestU