I've been thinking quite a bit lately about my blog and especially my associated YouTube channel and where I want to take it. It's been a couple of months since I last wrote a post. During this time, I haven’t stopped. After making videos for a while, I've started to think more about what I […]

Have you ever paused to think about how bizarre our everyday language actually is? If someone ever told you to "spill the beans," did you imagine getting a confession, or get a sudden, chaotic image of baked beans rolling across the kitchen floor? Going back to when I was young and growing up, my brain […]

Looking back, when I was younger, I admit to often interpreting language very literally. Because of this, figurative expressions like idioms and metaphors sometimes caused me some degree of confusion, as I expected them to make direct, concrete sense. For example, when I first heard the idiom “an arm and a leg,” I imagined it […]