prate Definition: (verb) To talk idly and at length; chatter. Synonyms: blabber, palaver, piffle, prattle Usage: I know the age better than you do, though you will prate about it so tediously.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

A promise must never be broken. Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)  

transient Definition: (adjective) Enduring a very short time. Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transitory Usage: The elderly woman was depressed and spent her days lamenting the transient beauty of youth.

Season Greetings, ​​Many people think of the Friday after Thanksgiving Day as a good shopping day, but for more than a dozen Bronx youth it’s a great day to share love and build relationships with people born “Generations” before. Members of the […]

phloem Definition: (noun) The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids. Synonyms: bast Usage: “Girdling” a tree, or cutting through its phloem tubes, results in the starvation of the roots and, ultimately, the death […]

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)