Wild Word Friday! Last week I was rereading one of my favorite novels, JANE EYRE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Charlotte Bronte. In the part of the novel when Jane was employed as a governess, she would hear an eerie laugh in the middle of the night. She described that laughter as CACHINNATION. I’ve read JANE EYRE at…
Wild Word Friday! Eons ago someone (I’m guessing it was a woman.) discovered that if you boil certain plants in water, the resulting “tea” can dye string or yarn or fabric. Archaeologists have found bits of tartan plaid fabrics in central Europe that have been carbon-dated to circa 800 B.C. [Women’s Work by Elizabeth Wayland…
Wild Word Friday! Years ago, my sister gave me a wonderful gift. She taught me how to weave. Weaving has been a joy in my life ever since, especially in winters, when I have the time and space to bring out my loom and WARP it. WARPing is the process of stretching the lengthwise or WARP…
Wild Word Friday! My father is an avid golfer. At age 84 he can still come close to shooting his age – last week scoring an 85 on 18 holes. I’m proud of him, and I know one of the disappointments of his life is that I am NOT a golfer or an athlete by…
Wild Word Friday! Once upon a time a long, long time ago, (when I was in the fourth grade), my mother styled my hair into CHEMISE bangs and I wore a baby blue CHEMISE dress. The dropped-waist-box-pleats look was really in, and I was a fourth-grade fashion maven. At least I thought I was. For those…
My Uncle Bill (Wilson Sawyer) was a symphony conductor and composer. Thus, ORCHESTRA was an early word in my vocabulary, and I can’t remember a time in my life when music wasn’t a central joy. I wasn’t very old when I realized that to be a good musician you have to have a gift of physical…
Wild Word Friday! My niece Amy and I had a little conversation a few weeks ago about the aggravation of trying to fit a word into a poem when that word has nothing that rhymes with it. Of course, the word ORANGE was the first one Amy mentioned. It didn’t take me long after our conversation to decide…
Wild Word Friday! In spring 2010 I gathered my courage and bought a LAVENDER plant for my garden. The reason that the purchase was brave (Or maybe foolish – have you noticed that sometimes bravery and foolhardiness are mistaken for one another?) was because I live in a Zone 3 to 4 area for plants and LAVENDER is a…
Wild Word Friday! Once I was interviewed for inclusion in a how-to book about writing. A few days later, I reread the interview and came across a sentence that I was afraid I had read elsewhere. I went through all my books on writing (and that’s quite a stash) but couldn’t find it. Finally I contacted the author of the how-to book…
Wild Word Friday! If you are fortunate enough to live or visit where city lights don’t mask the night sky, you probably spend portions of your life like I do – looking up and being amazed at the Milky Way, an earth-based view of part of our GALAXY. In one of his poems (written pre-1385), Geoffrey Chaucer writes, “Se…
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