Author name: Carol Tomany

reality, words

Room….

Our word for today is room. It’s an amazing word, because it’s not only your environment, it’s also your well being. I often say, “you wouldn’t go for a swim in dirty water, so why would you spend time in an messy room. “But, water just touches my skin,” you say. Yes, but a room […]

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Spirits

Our word for today is spirits. I’m not the one in our family who believes in spirits. My sister does, though and maybe I should start, because the other day she won $5,000.00 in a lottery. Here is how the spirits intervened. After my sister had bought the ticket, she put it on her night

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Chicken Chicken…

Our word for today is “chicken.” It always reminds me of the classic fight between Pizza Pizza and Chicken Chicken, a business a former employee of the pizza chain tried to start, using the same business model. The case went to court and Chicken Chicken lost. St Hubert has gone back to Quebec and Swiss

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Circuitous…

Our word for today is “circuitous” – in a round about way. Some of its synonyms are – meandering, serpentine, tortuous. I love meandering and serpentine. These are leisurely words – garden paths serpentine and rivers, especially old rivers, meander. Tortuous is something else entirely. People often take circuitous routes to get to where they

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Flattery…

Our word for today is Flattery – “undue praise” or “showing something to advantage.” I rarely flatter. I may compliment someone and definitely thank anyone for help, freely given or not. But I can truly say that I would not praise someone, unless they genuinely deserved it. In fact, for years, I tended to point

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Persistent…

Our word for today is stubborn. I like to think of it as persistent. The refusal to give up. I am mentally working on an idea. This may sound redundant. Having ideas is already a mental activity. But I am churning them over in my mind or, at least, one of them. I want to

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Personality…

Our word today is personality. So, I did one of those online personality tests. Here’s the site, if you’d like to try –  https://www.16personalities.com/ They really are very good at defining your inner self from just a few questions. I don’t usually take these tests seriously, however, I was a little stunned, when the description of my personality

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Turbulent…

Our word for today is turbulent – agitated. There are a lot of synonyms for turbulent, from something as mild as, disorder to something as frightening as violent. I remember the comments when both Trump and Ford were elected. People said that they wanted to, “shake things up a bit.” They had become complacent with

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Guilt…

Our word for today is guilt – the fact or state of having committed an offence. On one hand, we could feel guilt because of a terrible crime, we’ve committed. On the other hand, we could feel guilt, simply by being who we are. I have said before that I feel guilty because of an

reality, travel, words

AWE…..

Our word for today is awe – a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder. I like the synonym “wonderment.” Too often we use words such as awesome, awful, overawed, without thinking. The feeling of awe is quite profound. I think it should be reserved for those fall on your knees moments of real

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