I have read many of the comments from people who either have judged the parents or the kids by calling them stupid, or they have judged the media because they portrayed it as a lead story. Most of the comments are insensitive, cruel in nature with a tinge of a self righteous viewpoint. Where are the words of any comfort, compassion, or kindness towards this family or even for these two brothers?

Let me ask all you folks something; what do you think makes a lead story; what makes a story be on a national scale or a local scale? Columbine High school deaths were on a national scale; as it should have been. But is not the death of two little boys in the way it so far appears to have happened; be on a national scale?

Because you see on a national scale it becomes a wakeup call to fathers; sons, mothers, and all family members to take time and pause for just a moment and reflect on what is really missing here in this story, and that is the constant bombardment of children exposed to death and murder either in television, video games, or in music and books. Our kids are numb to seeing murder portrayed in any form of entertainment. They don’t cry when they see people die in shows or in shoot up video games where they can live in a fantasy world of killing people by the hand units on the X-Box or Play station games;; but we rationalize this because it is just a video game or just a TV show. People may say there is no correlation between make believe murder in entertainment vehicles and real outright acts of violence by kids these days. That can be debated by you, and many psychologists.

But there is one thing that cannot be disputed. The best deterrent that keeps kids from wanting to kill or be killed is showing children the benefits of developing a prayer life; and of reading the Bible. It’s so hard to kill yourself or others when you get off your knees from having just prayed to God for yourself and or your loved ones. I really don’t recall anyone reading the bible and going out to kill oneself unless they are deeply mentally disturbed and of course there are people who suffer mental illness; but putting those type of people aside for a moment, the Bible is a great place to help our kids in a world that runs its own definition of sanity; which plays by its own rules of love and hate and tells our kids what is right or wrong by its own moral definition thus rationalizing violent behavior as entertainment; but it only leaves us weeping at the sight of two dead brothers; children who obviously did not know the hope nor the future; nor the love that God had for them on a cross. We live in a society where God is really not the center of the home, and we live now with the carnage of it; be it Columbine or the death of two precious boys or simply with children who walk around with no hope.

Some people think I am referring to prayer when I speak of having thrown God out of the classroom. Having being raised Catholic and Jewish I would say this much; in almost every college class I was in, God was attacked so much by my college professors when they gave their lectures that I would have sworn that God must have been sitting in one of the classroom chairs. When a kid is picked on in class by other kids or by a teacher he or she is usually sitting there in the class. In fact I remember sitting in the front of a history class and turning my head to see if God was sitting in the back row as he was being blasted so much by my history professor. Because those professors acted as though he was there in the classroom. God thrown out of the classroom. No! I don’t think so, because they sure acted as though he was sitting there to be chewed out. They really didn’t want him thrown out of each of their classrooms because God was their poster boy to beat up each week. Has he been thrown out of classrooms? Ask my old college professors and if they were honest with themselves they would say-No; not really.

By the way this isn’t about whether prayer should be in school or not. You don’t force kids to pray but being a Jew raised in a Catholic School with a Greek orthodox Mom and Rabbi’s on my dad’s side this much I do remember; prayer in school; and believe you me we had plenty of it in Catholic school and of course in Hebrew school, really didn’t do me any harm nor any of my friends. A person wrote me and said the Bible was a horrible thing to show children. I thought what planet is this guy living on. He wrote and said that the Bible was full of topics that relate to sex, murder, and every other heinous acts. Sure it is and we would be blind to deny it. But that is because the Bible is only revealing what is in the heart of man; a sin stained heart. Wow, a book that is honest and doesn’t hide the dark sides of a man or women’s heart; or the good side of it; what a novel idea.

Yeah, the Bible does reveal the ugly side of man and the good side of mankind and it is best reflected in what we as Jews and what we as Christians read in this book and what many Christians call the Bible. Did my Mom and Dad pray? Yes, Did they make me pray; no. But seeing them on their knees made a difference in me because it revealed a humble posture that is hard to describe because it takes allot of humble guts to get on your knees and admit the world isn’t all about you. I didn’t show or tell my 5 year old boy about the dark side of man that the Bible reveals anymore than me reading to him ‘The Valley of the Dolls”, or taking my 5 year old son to see an X-rated movie. A 5 year old mind isn’t ready to read or hear about the dark side of man; not yet as he will find out soon enough.

The Bible does have its villains and its true heroes and it takes a parents wisdom to discern how to share at the right time in the right manner about the evil as well as the good men and women of the Bible. I don’t know whether these boys ever prayed by their bedside or over a meal or if they ever read or heard of the Bible or even went to church. This much I do know; these boys went to church on Friday-in two white hertz’s as they were on their way to be buried. I was sick to my stomach to see the motorcade pass me by as I was driving to work. I was sick thinking about the grief these parents would be feeling having to bury two of their precious sweet boys. I once played Santa Claus for kids at my company’s Christmas Party. I really didn’t want to put on the old smelly costume they gave me to wear but I did it for the kids as I was the fatso that could look like Santa the best. The children really looked up to me and I loved them sitting in my lap. But I am no Santa Claus and I am no Moses or for that matter any other Bible character for that matter either; but my son still looks up to me because he sees me on my knees. He doesn’t hear what I say on my knees as much as he sees me on my knees and perhaps we as parents would do well to be in such a position as that at least once in a while.

Is the death of these two precious boys about the subject of gun control, or the lack of parents who should have had better judgment in locking up a hand gun? What is really sad is no one is asking what is causing the moral decay that would make a child kill himself. Isn’t that really the question we should be asking ourselves? As for what is causing the moral decay; assuming you believe there is some sort of decay; I will leave that to my readers to decide. Some say it is video games that made the boys committ suicide. This much I do know and that is my son loves video games as he is 13 years old. We will go to Gamestop to buy the games and yet it is so hard to find a game that dosen’t have allot of killing within a game. I truly believe there are more games on killing than there is on any other subject. Did these two boys see constant killing in video games? The police won’t say what they watched, we only know that the parents withheld them viewing their video games for a short while due to some issue in the home; an issue the police felt should have had no bearing on them taking their lives. Thus the video gaming industry has been blasted for what may be viewed as a reason for their deaths. I won’t comment on that issue; but this I do know that the best selling video games show killing and death and that kids watch these games for hours. Makes you stop and wonder what their minds were thinking.

On a final note about the parents of these two boys. Word has it that when word got out that John W. Hinckley Jr. tried to kill President Regan in 1982, Dr/Rev Billy Graham called John Hinckley’s parents Jack and Jo Ann to pray for them. While a nation was furious about Hinkleys attempt to kill the President and what kind of parents John Hinkley had, Billy Graham took a different position, he went to his knees to pray for Jack and Jo Ann Hinkley. Frank and Maria Gonzalez may not get a phone call today from Dr. Graham, due to his health; but perhaps all of us in some kind of way can demonstrate that same kind of call, that same kind of behavior that Billy Graham portrayed toward parents. A position that starts on our knees. Maybe there is something beneficial about that Bible sitting in your closet after all. There is truly allot of guys and gals on their knees in that book. Something to think about.

I have never forgotten my 4^th grade teacher because she believed in me. She was kind, understanding and encouraging. She didn’t have to teach me by rapping out a tune about an academic subject. She was just herself. I began to believe in myself because she believed in me. I bet right now you can recall at least one teacher that cared about you.  

I admit I grew up in the world of Leave It To Beaver; I mean the syndicated reruns as I am not that old. In Beavers classroom you dare not cuss out your teacher and if you did you got swats from the principal’s office. By the way  no longer can kids get any physical punishment handed out by a principal of a school; which I thank God for.  Today Leave It To Beaver is still one of the most successful shows in television syndication. Why? Because the Beaver had a teacher in the show by the name of Mrs. Landers. We all want a teacher like Mrs. Landers. We all want our kids in a classroom where the teacher doesn’t have to carry a gun to protect themselves and where the children really feel loved and appreciated by their teacher. Perhaps my Mrs. Baffa was Mrs. Landers in disguise.

Let’s move past Leave It To Beaver into the teaching room of Welcome Back Kotter; the TV show of the 1975 period. I just introduced the rerun of the show to my teenage daughter and her 12 year old brother. They really love the character of Mr. Kotter the teacher at Buchanan High School and Mr. Woodman the Vice-Principal; and of course the kids who are known as Sweat-Hogs. Why do my kids love this show? Because just like Mrs. Baffa; Gabe Kaplan as Mr. Kotter really loved and cared about the kids. He used humor to deflect the frustration the kids felt and he never assumed that he was always right. He intertwined humor into his teaching and you laughed with him.  He never became one of them; but he knew how each one felt. Except in one episode Mr. Kotter and Vice-Principal Woodman thought the Sweat-Hogs were going to start their own gang and fight another rival high school gang; hence Kotter and Woodman got dressed up as gang members to discourage the Sweat-Hogs from doing any violence. In essence they became one of them; they became Sweat-Hogs. The rival gang member said that Buchanan High School had to be a real tough school to have a teacher in its gang and even the vice-principal; whom they also said was the oldest punk they ever saw.  Again, these television teachers displayed a great love for the kids of Buchanan High.

Now here we are in 2009. We don’t have Mrs. Landers nor Mr. Kotter. Now our kids have Mrs. Darbus who forever is trying to care for and teach Zac Efron and the rest of his friends in the trio of movies known as High School Musical. Funny, the teachers portrayed over the past 5 decades in television have always been the Mrs. Baffa’s of the world. The teachers behind the desk haven’t changed, but the sad fact is the classroom students have changed.   Now instead our kids can swear better, lie better, steal better and kill better; any teacher or student that they want to; and you wonder why some parents opt out for homeschooling. Great and caring teachers are still with us and that leads me to review a awesome website known as Teachertube.com.  

At Teacher Tube.com their goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. They seek to fill a need for an educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

Teacher Tube was the idea of Jason Smith, a 14-year veteran educator. Jason has been a teacher, coach, campus administrator and district administrator in public schools. He asked the question, “Why can’t teachers, students, and schools utilize the power of the read/write web for learning?” To overcome barriers, he decided to just create a site and get started trying to help. He turned to his brother, Adam, who is a younger, digital native, with technical skills. Adam used his skills to develop the site and found a web host. Soon, Jason’s wife, Jodie, joined the team to start populating the site with videos and help improve the communication. She too has 14 years of experience in education as a classroom teacher, campus technology integrator, and district curriculum coordinator. Most importantly, Teacher Tube community members are a major part of the evolution of the site. Members are encouraged to not only upload educationally relevant videos, but also to make constructive comments and use the rating system to show appreciation for videos of value to one as an educator or learner. The service is free for everyone.

In my opinion Teacher Tube is so desperately needed in the United States. Yes, you will see videos of all types of teachers trying to use different methods of conveying their educational styles. Some will teach their subjects in a Rap format and others will use different styles of methods. You can post comments on what you think of each video; and from the comments I read many students truly love what they see on this site. There is one common denominator among all of the videos; they all look, feel and sound like the heart beat of Mrs. Baffa, Mr. Kotter, Mr. Woodman, and Mrs. Darbus. They are trying to care where many parents have not. They are trying to teach because it’s in their hearts to do so. To all of the teachers who cared enough to bring their love and skill to this great website we applaud you. There are many television shows and films about teachers such as “To Sir With Love” to movies like “Stand & Deliver”. This website shows the love of these teachers to make these videos, therefore we want all of the teachers to know that we will stand with you because you are indeed trying to deliver; and Teachertube.com does exactly that; it delivers in a very big way. I know if Mrs. Baffa were alive today she would love Teachertube; in fact she would have been on it. See you next time at my refrigerator; where we can talk about the teachers we all love.

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First came the tape recorder that was reel to reel, then came the cassette,  then came video cameras but if you really stop and think about it where today can you record just your voice. Try going to any store just to buy a recorder or any device to record your voice. Good luck trying to find such a device. 

My friend in America once told me that he had a large box in his apartment filled with cassettes. On those devices were the recordings of interviews he held with his grandmother before she died. I thought to myself; what a great idea. He made those recordings about 20 years ago. Every so often he pulls the box out to hear his grandmother’s voice.

When was the last time you had a chance to hear the voices of those you lost?  It was once said that the great magician and illusionist Harry Houdini loved his mother. In fact he loved her to death. For weeks after her death, he made almost daily visits to the cemetery, sometimes lying on her grave to speak to her. “My mother was everything to me,” he said in a speech to the Magician’s Club. “It seemed the end of the world when she was taken from me…All desire for fame and fortune had gone from me. I was alone with my bitter agony…” Eventually, Houdini was able to return to work, but he continued to mourn his mother for the rest of his life.

I think Harry Houdini would have paid anything to hear his mother’s voice once again. Funny thing about Americans is that they are so much wanting to find fame and fortune in their own lives that they very people they should be spending time with have long been forgotten. Here in the US you see your cousins, distant cousins and other unknown or less frequently visited relatives either at weddings and if not then at funerals. 

Americans spend about 11 billion in US dollars on funerals, but they have no voices to show for it. Most people are lucky just to have old photos of their departed loved ones.  I once visited a cemetery after Christmas Day. I was shocked to see hundreds of grave sites with fully decorated Christmas trees, presents and all.  Do yourself a big favor, give yourself a present this Christmas and start to record the voice of the ones you love. Where are the simple days of just recording your voice? Sure, you could record your wonderful voice on your cell phone or have someone pull out your video camera and tape you. But, if the truth be told I as a father videotape my kids but no one tapes old dad. So when I pass away my kids will have a stack of DVD’s that show everyone; including our dog, but not me in the picture. That’s because I am the guy behind the camera.  

Yodio is great for downloading your wedding pictures or travel logs and sharing your comments.   The power of their website isn’t about discussing old photos, but it is really giving young and old the power to leave their voices on the web. If you could still hear the voices of your parents or loved ones that are now gone wouldn’t that be awesome. My dad is now gone but I wish I could hear his voice. Now with the advent of the internet and the help of this website you can now do what your parents couldn’t do, leave a voice behind for those you love. Next time you happen to be visiting your parents or grandparents, hand them the phone because now it is one step closer to that old tape recorder, but this time the tape won’t break because it will stay on the internet as long as Yodio can stay on the net.  It is free to record, produce and publish. Until next time see you at the refrigerator, because I keep my phone in the kitchen where I can record and eat at the same time.  Check this website out at www.yodio.com.

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 Unfortunately, in the United States we treat our poor and homeless children much differently. We give them stamps to buy food, we create food pantries so that they can pick up groceries, and we have homeless shelters where they can sleep at night. But to help them move forward beyond the begging mode, we practically do nothing to stop the downward spiral. In fact did it ever occur to you that homeless people are intelligent!

 Behind every homeless face in this world, there lies a story of someone’s life. Speaking of life, homelessness and death go hand in hand. The average age of death for a homeless person in America can be as low as 41 years. Homeless people often have difficulty in accessing medical care.

Homeless people are socially excluded. We usually don’t speak to a homeless person in America unless it is to jeer at them. Sometimes they can go weeks, months or even years without speaking to a single soul. Most of them would share their food with a stray dog just to have companionship rather than be totally alone in this world. Since few homeless shelters in the U.S. allow pets, is it no wonder that they would rather stay on the streets than in a warm bed. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness (see the Web site at http://www.endhomelessness.org), there are 600,000 homeless families and 1.35 million homeless children in the U.S. And the diminishing availability of affordable housing accounts as a primary factor casting folks on the curb – literally.

In the 1930’s if you lived on the streets of America they called you a bum. Today we call them the down trodden, the homeless, the unfortunate and the names go on and on. If we simply turn our heads they won’t go away. Maybe a few missionaries in Africa are on to something. In fact maybe the website known as www.madeitmyself.com is really on to something.

Madeitmyself.com allows people to sell what they make. Their current categories include bags, purses, clothing, decorations, jewelry, and woodworks and on and on their list keeps growing. In fact buyers can support their favorite charity by donating thorough their secure website.

Their website is wonderful to work with because it opens the doors to thousands of people who can display the beauty of what their hands can make. Then they in turn can make a living for themselves. It functions somewhat like E-bay because a seller can set a price or negotiate with a buyer; it’s a little like Ebay on training wheels. But what this website does not know is that they may be a source of help to the homeless.

Now just imagine if we could help the homeless worldwide; or just the ones that live in our communities by teaching them how to make things with their hands. All the items made by the homeless could then be sold on the internet via this website.

You don’t have to be homeless to access this website, but it indeed can be used to help the millions of Americans display the works of their hands. When we first bought the Christmas cards that were made in Africa I must admit I felt pretty good knowing that the money went back to the ladies who so desperately needed our funds to feed their kids.

As you are reading this column you and I both know that at one point in our life we have seen the face of a homeless child or an adult. It is like a plague that has swept every country on this ball we call earth. Normally I end my column by saying; see you at the refrigerator. This time I just don’t feel like eating; not when the homeless can’t.  Oh, I will go to the kitchen but this time to admire the small refrigerator magnet made by a woman in Africa.

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If we were really honest with each other I think all of us would like to lose that mid drift someday and once again fit into the clothes of our youth. My wife remembers me dating her wearing my black cowboy boots, tight black jeans and white Polo shirt. Problem is the only thing that fits is my boots and that’s because you never hear people say; oh your feet have put on a few pounds, nor do you ever hear people say to one another; I think his feet look like they have gained a few inches around his toes”.

To feel young again, I put on that old cologne that I use to wear on our dates together. Funny thing about odors; cologne can bring up memories like old out of style clothes you once wore. Now to compensate for the fact that I can’t get into the clothes of my youth I have my wife dye my hair so I wouldn’t look like Snow White or Father Time on a hot summer day.  

That is no different than women who continue to use creams, supplements and plastic surgery to look younger even if they feel they aren’t working. It has been proven that as soon as women begin to succeed in looking younger, their anxiety lessens. But what if you could throw away the creams, supplements, and get rid of your plastic surgeon, and instead wear the clothes you once wore in your younger days. Wow, what a novel idea; looking younger by wearing the clothes of the past from the 1940’s on up. Now you can find those clothes; which leads me to a website that is just awesome. It is called Rustyzipper.com 

Launched in November 1995, RustyZipper.Com was the web’s first vintage clothing store. In the past 14 years, they have outgrown the spare closet & now have a 5,500 sq foot warehouse full of amazing stuff. They have thousands (over 23,000 at last count) of one-of-a-kind vintage clothing items from the 1940′s through 1980′s, all available to view & order online. They also have a sister site known as Kingpoodle.com which has more than 5,000 vintage items from the ’40s through the ’80s,  which features discount vintage clothing — nothing over $10 — from the same eras. Both are the brainchildren of clothing collectors who decided to channel their passion into virtual stores.

Maybe the fountain of youth lies in your bedroom closet and while you are waiting to lose those extra inches you can stroll down memory lane into a time tunnel of years that Rustyzipper can take you to. Enjoy the visit to their websites and you just might be singing Zippity do da, Zippity Day. You know all of this talk about weight and clothes has made me hungry. See you at the refrigerator and remind me to get some mothballs at the store, I wouldn’t want moths to eat all of my clothes from my youthful past.

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How obese is America? The latest numbers are 58 million Americans are overweight; 40 million are obese; 3 million morbidly obese. By the way morbid obesity is a step closer to the grim reaper. Only 26 percent of U.S. adults engage in vigorous leisure-time physical activity three or more times per week.  About 59 percent of adults do no vigorous physical activity at all in their leisure time.

In the United States one of the most successful television programs dealing with cooking first started with Graham Kerr, better known as the Galloping Gourmet.  Mr. Kerr didn’t have the elaborate kitchens or any rock band performing on his show or any food challenge network.  He didn’t have any competition to outdo another chef nor did he step into Hell’s Kitchen to make other peoples life miserable. What made him interesting to watch was that he loved food and he loved the people in his audience.  More importantly his desire was to teach you how to cook; and how to cook for the people you loved, not how to love food, and therein lies the difference from his show and the cooking shows we see today.

In America if you want to see the ramifications of our food obsessions then our wonderful television networks came up with a show called “The Biggest Loser”.  Now you can sit in front of your TV like a couch potato and see the most obese people you will ever see in your life struggling to lose weight and win a huge sum of money.  Obesity has now become a form of entertainment in the United States disguised in the form of a TV show that is designed to help these people wean off of the Food Channel and whatever ever else they watch. We have forgotten that there is one thing obesity does do to people; it kills them. I guess people can bury themselves with a fork. My kids love the show because they say it encourages them to stay trim and to keep the weight off so you won’t look like “those people”. Then with a flick of the TV remote control they like all other Americans are back to watching  the Food Network Channel where they beg me to make the recipes they see on their favorite TV programs from that channel.  Funny thing is you won’t see reruns of “The Biggest Loser” on the Food Network Channel”. I wonder why!

What is now worse is parents have now passed the food baton to their children. Now are kids are becoming obese and some morbid obese. The percentage of overweight children, ages 6-11 has nearly doubled since the early 1980′s. To tackle this problem ABC Television ran a show a few years ago known as Shaq’s Big Challenge. It stared the great basketball player known as Shaquille O’Neal. What I loved about this program was it followed the life of many morbid obese children whom Shaq seriously wanted to help. It showed what no program has ever shown in the US and that is the hard reality that losing weight is tough and kids need our help. The show lasted only one season. Even its website no longer is operating and it was a great website to help families with their weight problems which leads me to review a website known as GroupReceipies.com. Here comes another American website to glorify food.

On this site you can have a social like connection with people who share their recipes and stories about their lives. In fact the website states Group Recipes wants to be the world’s neatest food site, from meeting other food lovers to nifty recipe predictions and taste compatibility.

This website is awesome from its functionality to the way it is designed to the great social connection it plays off of food; but there lies the problem again. It uses the term “Food Lovers”. In fact people on the site are described as “Foodies”.

Funny thing though, the more I looked at the site I really didn’t see too many pictures of Foodies. In fact most Foodies used other images or odd designs rather than photos of themselves.  I wonder why!  Well time to go. Writing about food has now made me hungry. Until next time see you at the refrigerator.

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 But what happens to those so called foreigners who can’t speak a word of English when they land in the United States. Well I had a grandmother who landed in the USA literally off of a boat from Greece when she came to America in 1923. She came into the US speaking Greek and she died speaking Greek. There is an old saying in the United States that if someone says something that is incomprehensible, then we say the term “It’s all Greek to me”.   I wonder why we never say “It’s all Italian to me or “It’s all Spanish or Russian or Chinese to me”.  Go figure!    Well, I could never understand a word my Grandmother said while she was yelling at me in Greek. However, I did understand her body language and yet that language is understood in all countries of the world.

My first encounter with her temper and her body language was when she wanted to bake me a batch of cookies. What she did not know was that I hid my kitty cat named Frisky in the oven so she wouldn’t see that I had a cat in the house.  Right before she started to put the oven on I opened the oven door, grabbed Frisky and off we both ran.  Oh, she still made me cookies, but I can still hear her yelling in Greek at me when Frisky and I ran for our lives. I’m sure those Greek words today could not be printed in this article.

I had the opportunity to practice my own version of verbal prejudice by pretending that I didn’t understand her. For example when she handed me a broom to sweep the living room I just pretended that I didn’t understand her so I would just shrug my shoulders and hand her back the broom.  But she wasn’t stupid, she knew that an object in her hand meant something for me to do.  You should have seen my grandmother chase me with the broom. It is incredible what people will do with inanimate objects to move you along when you pretend that you don’t understand their words.  I think my grandmother should have entered the Olympic Games for the broom hockey sport. She would have won the gold medal in a heartbeat.  

Looking back no one ever cared to teach her English.  As I write to my pen pal friends overseas often they will apologize to me about their English in their writings. What is sad is that the Americans should be the ones apologizing about the use of our poor grammar. If you type in the words “Poor Grammar” on the Google search engine you will get 235 thousand hits. Gee, I wonder why!!

 Well, I have great news for those who want to learn the English language. I’m sorry my dear grandmother wasn’t alive during the days of the internet. She could have gotten the help she needed from an awesome website known as www.Wordahead.com.

Wordahead.com is a promising new service offering more than 500 videos and 66 thousand words designed to help students learn better vocabulary. The website is totally free to use. The website appears to have been developed to help kids get a higher score on their SAT exams. An SAT is a test that a student must take if they want to go to college. Failure to get a high grade on the SAT can result in a student not being able to go to the college of their choice.

Each video that the website has reflects a narrator pronouncing each word. Then the voice reads the definition and uses the word in a sentence.  An animated drawing accompanies each sentence to illustrate the meaning of each word and sentence. You can watch the Word Ahead videos individually or in a continuous stream.  You can view all of the Word Ahead videos directly from their website and you can also embed the Word Ahead widget into your blog or website.

Before Americans critize the next person’s accent or vocabulary on the phone, I suggest that they test their own vocabulary of words on this website. People will become humbled very quickly as to how much you they don’t know about the English language. In fact they might say “It’s All Greek” to them. All this Greek stuff is making me hungry for some Baklava. Until next time see you at the refrigerator and oh by the way don’t mind the broom next to the freezer.  I welcome your comments-Please write me at  uniquewebsitereviews@yahoo.com