LOGIC SCHMOGIC

Words go round in circles in my brain. At school I was the spelling bee champion. I loved acing a spelling test, but most of all, I loved understanding words, the meaning of words and the power of words.

My teachers told me my comprehension writing was excellent and told me I should be a writer. They said I was a good storyteller. Well, ignored that and went off and did many other things.

Now, so many years later, I want to share stories with people I don’t know and have never met. Why? I guess to gain some satisfaction that harks back to my primary school years, but mostly because for a while now, something inside of me will not leave me alone until I write it down. There’s no logic to it.

It’s logic schmogic. I looked it up, it’s Yiddish! Historically spoken by Jews. Yiddishism, which for me, translates to Yiddish slang. I Yiddish a lot through life.

What’s not to like about making fun of words. It’s supposed to be funny! It lightens the mood. ‘You have to be concerned about weather when you travel,’ changes to ‘Weather, schmeather, I go wherever I want.’ ‘I’m so tired, I could snooze.’ ‘Snooze schmooze, I’m gonna have a nap.’

It comes from when I was working at a local Casino in Reservations. A group of Hungarian Jews would come and stay three times a year. The ladies were glamorous, and the men were suave. I would catch up with all of them for dinner and the way they spoke was, well, catchy to say the least!

Throughout the years, logic schmogic is a phrase and memory that sticks in my mind, from those times. Conversations with them all trying to talk over the top of each other, peppered with mazel tov, they always told me I was mensch and had chutzpah.

So, mensch schmensch, mazel schmazel, chutzpah schmutzpah and logic schmogic, they always made me laugh and always dazzled me with their words.

The Rubik’s Cube, the logical, illogical puzzle. For some, my son Jackson included, it’s done easily, for others including myself, not easy. It’s intriguing, but there is definitely a logic when it comes to solving this puzzle critter. Use logic they say to solve it, I say ilogiccal schmogical.

My first goal in blogging is to become modern and drop the two spaces between sentences to one only. It’s rubbish schmubbish, but I’m going to give it a go.