Wild Word Friday! This summer when I was reading some poems to my youngest granddaughter, we came across that old favorite The Owl and the Pussy Cat. You probably remember that “The owl and the pussy cat went to sea/in a beautiful pea-green boat”, and that “they took some honey and plenty of money/ wrapped up…
Next Monday is our first official MySky Monday. We will feature a “No Words Just Serenity” format with a different photograph each Monday that I hope will start your busy work week with a moment of relaxation. Please join us beginning next week for MySky and also for our new Wednesday posts About You and, of…
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…
Wild Word Friday! As I’ve mentioned in a few other posts, our summers are hectic. Maybe I should say crazy. It’s not unusual for us to extend our table to seat more than twenty for multiple meals. It’s a great time, but to tell the truth without SPAGHETTI I’d be lost! A meal of SPAGHETTI…
Wild Word Friday. I could tell you that our English word HEART (the actual physical heart) comes from the Middle English herte and the Angle Saxon word heorte, which springs from the very ancient Indo-European base word kerd, and that all of them mean HEART. But you won’t find a better definition of HEART than this…
Wild Word Friday! You have to admit that some of the names of states in the United States are pretty wild, at least in sound and spelling. The name, ILLINOIS – a state in the central portion of the U.S. – is of Algonquian origin. ILLINOIS translates as man – in the sense, “We are men, not deer, not…
Wild Word Friday! The elders in our little community often refer to a porch as a STOOP, and, when I hear that word, I visualize the daub-and-wattle huts of ancient times where a hard, swept-dirt pad fronts a small low door. You had to STOOP to get into the hut, and thus the first word for…
One of the first words I learned as young piano student was FORTE. FORTE is an Italian word (pronounced fore- tay) and it means loud. I loved seeing that little word FORTE printed on my music. Kick it in! Pound that keyboard! Permission to be loud? WooHoo! I soon began mimicing the adults in my life by using FORTE in…
Wild Word Friday! I’d never heard of the word CHOUSE (rhymes with house) until a month ago when I was browsing through a dictionary, and there it was, important enough to be tucked in its own little dictionary niche. Thus I learned that a CHOUSE is a swindler. Used as a verb, to CHOUSE means to trick…
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