Dr. Larry Pittman Goddard Blog

I can’t help but think of the word, “mean”, all this past week.   I’m not mean, but I am drawn that way. Did you mean to say those mean words in that mean way? Not meaning to be mean.   Just said words.   Not mean. Did you mean to call me? I love you.   Mean it.   A friend named Molly is known for saying that.   I love you.   And Mean it.   So, me thinking all week:   Mean is not always ‘mean’…. I wonder what that means. I sometimes use the word ‘meandering’ which if read weirdly could be “MEAN-ering”… there is usually nothing mean about my mind meanderings.   I think I have a mean streak, though. I mean, like, frankly, I show my mean streak when people over use the words:    Like, Frankly (as in beginning all sentences with ‘Frankly’ or ‘Frankly speaking’—such an obvious thing and I mean it and it makes me show a mean streak…)   Frankly, actually, and ‘at the end of the day’ are overused and if I w...

If only I had more time… I’d try to figure out why people say, “I’m going to draw a bath…”, or “I have your bath drawn…”   When I bathe, I don’t want any drawing! If I had more time, I’d think on why people say, “it’s clouding up”… yet no one says, “It’s clouding down”. Once, just once, I'd like to be able to use the word, “skedaddling” in an everyday conversation without getting the ‘once over’… Well, when someone tells you the absolute truth, they sometimes end it with: "...and you can take that to the bank!".... Now, what would I do with a bit of information at the bank? No deposits allowed. Or, when someone is overly excited about something...'he went to town over it'.... as in, "The chocolate pie was cut and he really went to town on it, eating every bite." People are crabby but crabs, I have experienced, are not in particularly ‘bad dispositions’ to be called 'crabby crabs'....why, oh why, do we call crabby p...