So So

I’m a Yankee; my husband Norm is a rebel. Our accents and slang have often revealed the difference; at times I’ve been clueless. If asked how he was doing, he’d said fair to middling. I had no idea what he meant. What in the world? World travelers might have heard the expression, but I had not. Learning that a good definition is so-so, I understand. He wasn’t feeling really ba...