Arrant: a rant

Arrant: a rant

arrant MEANING: adjective: Complete; thorough. Here’s a word that has had both its spelling and meaning bent out of shape from use. It’s a variant of errant (wandering). Earlier the word was used in the sense of wandering or vagrant, for example, an arrant...
Living Life as a Miracle: New Office Found

Living Life as a Miracle: New Office Found

What should you do when you are stressed to the ceiling of your office, when the walls are pressing inward, and the floor feels like it will drop out? Take a walk! Seek open space…sound psychological advice. My spacious windowed office was no longer going to be...
Affluence

Affluence

I came of age when women were newly encouraged to be equal, to take charge, to surge upward, “lean in.” As a result of this insurrection – and the recent spate of down-sizing higher echelon men – 20% of women ages 40 – 69 earn about the...
Delicious Acuity

Delicious Acuity

Which was you prefer as delicious acuity – if you had to, or could, choose, Constant Reader: foresight or hindsight? “No one knows what it’s like To be the bad man To be the sad man… Behind blue eyes” —Pete Townsend, The Who As for me, I...