Enthusiastic book recommendations! Martha’s savoring the biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th-century explorer, polymath, and naturalist who revolutionized our understanding of nature and predicted the effects of human activity on...
Deb in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, says that when her mother was disappointed or annoyed she’d say Wouldn’t that just cork you? The idea here is that in the same way that a cork that stops up a bottle, an unexpected or irritating event...
Jackie from Hinsdale, Illinois, grew up hearing a teasing child described as a corker — playful, rambunctious, and only mildly naughty. The word’s slang sense developed from cork as something that stops or settles matters or ends a debate or...