Damsel

The Rainbow Connection

It’s 7:15 P.M. and I have just spent the last hour and a half trying to soothe my six-week old son so that he can go to bed. Really, it’s me who wants to go to bed and therefore he needs to go to bed.

Dial a Cliché

(Priscilla Tallman) Have you ever noticed how many cliches there are in spoken language? Ever noticed how we throw them around like Mardi Gras beads on Fat Tuesday (there's one now)? Next time you hear one or say one of these emotional cliches think for a moment what you might really be saying...