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The thing we cannot live without, the most essential element in the human spirit.
As 2020 ended, as 2021 shone with promise, there was so much to hope for. Regained dignity for America, a life where everyone could once again move freely, could smile and touch, could breathe without fear.
A year in which every day feels the same as the day before, and the day before that, stuck in your own private Punxsutawney thanks to Covid.
March 2020 to March 2021 felt like Groundhog Year to many, their working, academic and social lives constrained, confined, out of reach, the old forward motion of days, weeks, months a diminishing dream.
An unsolicited photo of a person's genitalia. The politically correct term for what was long known as "indecent exposure", borrowed from the whole baby-coming-out-party idiocy.
She was neither shocked nor offended by Jared's sending her a dick pic an hour after their first date, as if he was unsure whether he was actually a man. She was fairly certain he was, and was not in need of the gender reveal.
Flirting with death by going shopping during coronaviral stay-at-home orders.
There was a strong chance of catching the virus, going out was playing Virussian Roulette, but she had stopped caring.
A Phone Degree from Look It Up.
An education gained not in school but through addiction to the smartphone. The reflex to Look It Up, in the face of any unknown fact, is the giveaway of a 21st century autodidact.
The professor seems to have her doctorate and then some, but watch closely for three minutes and you'll see's got a PhD from LIU.
A word or phrase on Urban Dictionary which enjoys a fine and happy life, generating views and many thumbs up and down. It enters the language triumphantly, good people everywhere now using it. Then, in an instant, the word or phrase mysteriously vanishes from Urban Dictionary, and no one seems to know why.
He hunted for the missing definition. It was gone from his own pages. For a day or two it still showed up in the search bar, and in a Google search, then went completely AWOL. The author, deciding to re-submit it, got the "oops" message - the definition already existed - even though it didn't. Paging Sherlock Holmes.
Self-contained road rage - the fight a couple has while driving, neither looking at the other, on a trip one of them really did not want to take.
She demanded to turn around and go home. He was determined to get to the guns and ammo exposition. It could only end in a massive front seat fracas.