Yet More Words of the Future

1. Anglosplaining -- the process by which a white person of non-Hispanic descent chooses to lecture a Hispanic person on Hispanic issues; a word that originally referred to people of English descent lecturing Germans on their own history.
2. Anglx -- English equivalent of Latinx.
3. Ben-and-Glory moment -- a moment in which you find yourself explaining the same thing over and over again.
4. Do an Elsa -- let it go.
5. Go all Sally Field -- seem overly anxious to be liked.
6. The Juan Peron Syndrome -- a term inspired by a story told by my late father about how his American teacher taught him one year that Juan Peron was a great friend of the United States and taught him the next year that Peron was a great enemy of the U.S.

Hey, I Remember This Show: The Flying Nun

The original opening for the oddest sitcom I ever saw. The funny thing is that when I watched this show as a kid, it never occurred to me to question the logic of the show's premise. In fact, I remember being disappointed whenever Sally Field's character went a whole episode without flying.