Tag Archives: adulthood

Addled Lessons

Posted by Ken Fields on November 1, 2009 at 11:29 am.

To be addled is to be confused; that about sums it up for adolescence. Actually, the word “addled,” from the Middle English period, translates as “mud, filth.”  Adolescence is a dirty, filthy, confusing time. Adolescence, as a word comes from Latin and translates into English as “to grow.” The word “adult” comes from the same [...]

Shakespeare’s Point

Posted by Ken Fields on October 30, 2009 at 5:34 pm.

“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
and one man is his time plays many parts,
his acts being seven ages…”
William Shakespeare, in addition to being a master poet and playwright, was quite an astute psychologist. This excerpt from his comedy As You Like It, [...]