How can you kick the verbal habit of saying you know and um so many times in a sentence? For one thing, get comfortable with pauses. There’s no need to fill every silence during a conversation. Also, a doctor who treats patients in Appalachia...
Gene from the Badlands of South Dakota grew up hearing his grandmother’s temperance-flavored line, Cold water is the cup that cheers away, away the bowl. The clue is away the bowl, a refrain in abstinence songs and rhymes going back at least to the...