Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? Momma inbited some magic pigs to visit! She said I can post my own post next week. Now, I’m going to hide, because I don’t like bisitors. Oh, the pigs work with a writer Momma knows and…

“Don’t buy a pig in a poke.” The expression was first published in 1546–in English, anyway–in a book of proverbs collected by John Heywood. One place tells me that “poke” is an old Dutch word meaning “bag” or “sack” and another place tells me it…