Coincidence, or Something Else?

About once a month, I would estimate, I have the bizarre experience of hearing, seeing, speaking, or writing a word at the very moment (or within seconds) of encountering that very same word through other means. For example, I was heading to the hardware store to buy a propane tank for our gas grill. I got in the car, the radio came on, and a BBC British voice immediately uttered the word "propane" as a part of a story he was doing on gas production in Russia. It's like this every time.

Just five minutes ago, I was listening to a podcast and the narrator described a person as "pathetic" not one second after I typed the word "pathetic" into my instant messenger window.

I'm not a superstitious person. I don't believe in or adhere to any religious customs. And yet there's something beyond the conscious realm connecting here, I'm quite sure of that. So I ask you, dear reader, what's going on?