Today's OneWord: Anywhere

Anywhere is a word that tends to bother certain people because saying you could go anywhere you wanted isn't exactly accurate, being that we are stuck on this tiny pearl of a planet and do not fly out to Mars for fear of our heads bursting like candy-filled balloons, spraying confetti all across the solar system - or travel back in time, for that matter, to Victorian England, where you'd be more likely to get the black lung than have a lovely dance with the aristocracy, but at least your lungs wouldn't compress into ribbons upon your intrepid voyage to Jupiter...without a helmet.

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