Apropos means regarding or appropriate to, as in: Apropos of your interest in fishing, your grandfather gave you his set of championship lures, rods, reels and lucky tackle box. Apropos is a useful word to learn. But first you have to know how to pronounce it:AP-rə-pō. ...
Being the kid who couldn’t stop blurting things out, who saw things quite differently than other kids, whose name they would never pronounce correctly, I often felt different. I often felt the way the Jewish kids must have felt during our public school’s Christmas pageant. Or how Hindus,...
THE ACCORDION PLAYER jumps off the stage and climbs on top of a table...and then to another table, the guests holding him up...all the time playing his solo...a feverish squawking melody...the crowd is WILD and so is Hector, watching this Jimi Hendrix of the accordion. The guy ...