High School reunion – An event that for many causes uneasiness, even trepidation, because of expanding waistlines and receding hairlines. Dave has not attended a high school class reunion in 30 years. Life kept getting in the way: Work, his daughter’s summer...
Native – Born a particular place. Used to refer to the place where a person was born and raised. – Webster’s Dictionary The newspaper story said that a former Mitchell athlete, Tucker Volesky, had been accepted into “Native American Political Leadership...
Teacher: A person who cares enough about abusive and ungrateful teens to work for crappy pay and long hours while hoping someday students mature enough to realize how lucky they are to have someone who gives a d—- about them. — Urban Dictionary...
Trans – Across, beyond, through, completeness of change. –Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. Shawn Lyons is good with words. He has to be because he spends the first three months of each year talking to legislators as the lobbyist for the South Dakota...
Hammock — A hanging, easily swung cot or lounge of canvas or netting suspended between two trees or other supports. From the Spanish word hamaca. — American Heritage Dictionary The decline of the hammock in our society is similar to the abandonment of the...
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” — Mark Twain During the GOP debate last Thursday night, I was trying to pay attention to the words used – apart from the...
Arson: the willful or malicious burning of property, such as a building, especially with criminal or fraudulent intent. – Merriam Webster Dictionary It’s painfully clear that the state Department of Investigation should have placed a call to Sam Spade 25 years...
Braggart – A loud or arrogant boaster. Webster’s New International Dictionary. When did America become so infatuated with braggarts? Did it start with Muhammad Ali, who proclaimed that he was “the greatest”? Even when Joe Frazier flattened him in 1971, it didn’t...
Hero: A man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. Dictionary.com Robert LeDoux is an honest to goodness “hero,” though he says he is not. Just last week, as a Louisiana state trooper lay bleeding on the ground...
Caramel – An amorphous brittle brown and somewhat bitter substance obtained by heating sugar and used as a coloring and flavoring agent. Merriam Webster Dictionary Why do you say it that way, Grandpa? Our grandson was wondering why I said “car-a-mel,” as in,...
