Word of the Week: impunity (im-PYOO-nih-tee)
Exemption from consequence or punishment for an action. The impunity of the police chief’s law-breaking son astounded the town’s citizens. From the Latin impunitas, impune, without punishment. Related words: impudence (someone who behaves as if they will not be punished).
Quote of the Week:
Maybe you’ve felt the same way . . . I know I have.
Poet Linda Pastan once said: "I often write poems in my head to distract myself during hard times. . . . Years ago, after a car crash, while I lay waiting for the ambulance, I actually finished a poem I had been working on, determined not to die before I had it right." From Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac.
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