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Time is Currency

Alicia K. Anderson Ph.D.'s avatarAlicia K. Anderson

In Lakoff’s Metaphors We Live By, you can read a lot more about “Time is Money” as an idiomatic metaphor that we all agree with. (You spend time, you budget time, you waste time…)  We’ve heard it so pervasively, most of us don’t think about it.

Let me give you another spin on it: We made time an actual currency in our house.

We bought a few boxes of poker chips. The kind with blue, red and black clay chips that clink satisfyingly when you run a stack between your fingers.  Based on the number of each color available, (there were 25 blue, 15 red and 10 black chips in each box) we assigned time-units to them. The blue are worth one minute, red are worth two, and black chips are worth five minutes each.

We can bet them (“I bet you three minutes you’re wrong!”). We can earn…

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About The Owl Lady

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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