A high-school teacher in Fort Worth, Texas, wonders about the origin of the term honky. This word is widely considered impolite, and likely derives from various versions of the term hunky or hunyak used to disparage immigrants from Eastern Europe...
momster n.— «I have seen the wonderful tenderness of some mothers, and I’ve seen the damage that can be done by the Joan Crawfords of the world—what I affectionately called “the momsters.” Most mothers, my own included, are somewhere in...