Raise your hand if you think you might be neurotic.
Raise your other hand if you don’t know what it means.
I t ’ s a crazy word. As a child, I wondered what it meant when my mother said it. Now, my husband says it. I’m still wondering.
Except, I looked it up, so I sort of know. The catch-all word peaked in popularity in the early 1950s (when my mother was say...