In summer, I notice I tend to get stuck on the issue of incivility a lot. I get it, it s hot and we re all cranky (frankly, I worry about some of those people who love weather like this; my friends know who they are). But really, is that a good excuse to act like a jerk?
Longtime readers know I m often easily amused, especially when it comes to words. Soooo . imagine my face when I saw on Facebook the other day a screenshot of a post by novelist Aprilynne Pike that said: "My British publisher replaced pants with trousers and the book WENT TO PRINT with the word occutrousers."
Sunday afternoon, I headed to the grocery store with a friend so we could get what we each needed for the week. We should have taken what sounded like gunshots (it was balloons being popped) as a sign.
As much as I sometimes decry social media, I admit there are some accounts that are always worth a follow. For the Word Nerd, following the Merriam-Webster dictionary is just a given, but considering the humor of its social media team, anyone logophile or not is missing out if they don t at least check on its feed every once in a while.
Friday s storm, while a bit scary at times (it got really dark where I was in midtown Little Rock, so much so that a closet was cleared out and helmets put at the ready just in case), helped cool us off quite a bit from the level we d been suffering through. But as we know in an Arkansas summer, that s only temporary, and as the heat rises again, so will tempers.