Coffee Chain Creating Jobs For The Disabled

by Karen Shimizu Food &Wine    Bitty & Beau’s is a civil rights movement disguised as a coffee shop.   Bitty & Beau’s has everything you could want from a neighborhood café. The coffee is hot and strong, there’s ample seating, and the free wifi encourages you to linger.    But the experience it offers is rare …

Crash Bang Hiss! Here’s To Onomatopoeias

by Dictionary Scoop    A language as elastic and adaptive as English allows for words that describe anything you can think of. And onomatopoeias stand out as vibrant threads that weave together the sound and vision of our daily communication.    These words echo the sounds they represent, adding a symphony of sensory richness to …

Facts You Might Not Know About M*A*S*H

by Interestingfacts.com    From its premiere on CBS in Sept. 1972 through its historic series finale watched by more than 106 million Americans in Feb. 1983, M*A*S*H changed television forever.     The series followed the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War of the early 1950s and seamlessly blended comedy and drama like never before. …

Amazing Facts About Musical Instruments

by interestingfacts.com     Each musical instrument has its own amazing facts and stories. Here are astounding facts from the world of musical devices, both familiar and unusual. 1-The Piano Defies Classification    What type of musical instrument is a piano? When a piano is played, each key controls a hammer that strikes a tuned string …

Consider What Riches You Have Dear Christian

by Kevin Burton    The bad news is you can’t take it with you. The good news is, you’re not gonna need it, not gonna miss it at all.    So don’t sweat your present conditions on earth dear Christian, no matter what they are. Your day will come, in fact is already declared, your …

More Words (And A Suffix) From Yiddish

by Kevin Burton     Along with more words English has gotten from Yiddish, today we include one suffix.    A suffix is a letter of group of letters added to the end of a word. It can change the word’s grammatical function or meaning.    The best example of a suffix from my formative years …

English Words That Came From Yiddish

by Kevin Burton    You could go to college and learn about words and word formation, or you could go to the nearest schoolyard.    How do we get the words we get?    The cool kids, the most influential ones, talk a certain way. Soon the school follows.    Believe me, in school had turns …

Mary Wells Disappeared After “My Guy”

by Kevin Burton    In my alternate Motown universe there is a lot more Martha Reeves and a lot less Diana Ross. There is also at least a little more Mary Wells.    It’s Wells we focus on today. Sixty years ago, Wells’ “My Guy” became the first Motown record to hit number one on …

Burger Day Comes But Once (Or Twice) A Year

by Kevin Burton    Today is National Burger Day in the US, but really any day could be.        You won’t be surprised to hear that Aug. 27 is also celebrated as National Burger Day by some. Between the ubiquitousness of the burger and the shamelessness of the marketing types to plant their flags …

How You Doing With Spiritual Screen Time?

by Kevin Burton    Every Sunday around church time my iPhone sends me a message about screen time, how much time I have spent on the phone that week compared to other weeks.     I don’t care about the message. I didn’t ask for it and I have no use for that data.    Not …