Wild Word Friday! Don’t you just love a word like CHICANERY? Just saying it out loud engenders all kinds of mischievious images. Most of the CHICANERY in mylife happened when I was a kid. My younger brother Bob was my sidekick. Actually, I was probably his sidekick. He was a lot better at CHICANERY than I was, although…
Wild Word Friday! We couldn’t do a post last week about the word mother without including one this week about FATHER. My FATHER is a retired teacher and an active golfer. At age 84 he still regularly shoots in the low 40s and that’s after having back surgery last year. My FATHER always made life…
Wild Word Friday! My MOTHER is often on my mind right now. She is struggling with dementia, and, as always in matters of dementia, the whole family also struggles. My MOTHER played the piano beautifully and taught a more than a hundred students how to play. She was a church organist, a swing band pianist…
Wild Word Friday! Last week 14-year-old Sukanya Roy won the 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling the word CYMOTRICHOUS. If you saw the video clip, you probably noticed that she had a little twinkle in her eye as she spelled the word, which I took to mean that she knew how to spell it…
Wild Word Friday! CIGARs are not in style. They are not healthy. They are not cool. They are not smart. (Can you can tell I’m highly opinionated about the subject?) My maternal grandfather (Granddaddy) was a smoker of CIGARs. I’m quite sure they shortened his life. (He died of a heart attack at age 69….
Wild Word Friday! I remember hearing as a child that the forbidden fruit eaten by Adam and Eve was an APPLE. Actually, I think my source for this misinformation was a coloring page for Sunday School of Adam and Eve strategically placed among leaves and bushes with APPLEs in their hands. I even remember contemplating that perhaps…
Wild Word Friday! I’ve always considered potato chips and popcorn to be the quintessential snack food of the ages. A bit of research turns up the fact that although popcorn has been around for a while, thanks to the Native peoples of North and South America, PRETZELs are a much older snack food than potato…
Wild Word Friday! A few years also, a friend of mine attended her granddaughter’s kindergarten graduation. During the ceremony, each child had a mini interview. The question asked was “What do you want to be when you grow up.” My friend’s granddaughter answered, “A princess,” which made the audience laugh and the girl’s mother groan….
Wild Word Friday! In the spring, if you drive out into the country, you may see them in the ditches and the fields. I’m talking about those large bunches of showy yellow flowers that we call marsh marigolds or COWSLIPS. I’m told that in the British Isles COWSLIPS are a similar flower to those we see…
Wild Word Friday! I participate in a bluegrass/country musicgroup. Each Saturday afternoon we meet for a jam session. I play the mandolin and dulcimer and the baglama, which is a Greek stringed instrument. Lest you be too impressed, please understand that I don’t play any of these instruments well. Not at all. My husband plays the…
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