The Word: Crick

The phrase ‘crick’, used by indigenous mountain people of Pennsylvania, never went mainstream. The word crosses tongues there more frequently than powdered funnel cakes. The only instance that residents of Huntingdon County use ‘creek’ is whey they say “You’re up shit’s creek,” otherwise, the proper word for casual conversation there is ‘crick’. That’s what flows [...]

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The Boy with the Red Thumb

A hoe was secured between the curved handlebars of my ten-speed bicycle. Bill carried the rake. We pedaled five miles from our home in Three Springs to our family’s vegetable farm on the outskirts of Saltillo. Most children were sleeping at 6 a.m. on hot summer mornings. We were up early. We wanted to beat [...]

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Beat 360

Anderson Cooper needs to spend less time producing Emmy award winning documentaries like “Planet In Peril” and discuss the oil crisis on CNN. We have no time for ‘Name the Caption’ photo contests. I would never wear an “I Beat 360″ t-shirt. They are unfashionable, like Anderson Cooper. He has much media power, yet acts [...]

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