It’s always an interesting diversion to muse about names – why certain names are popular at certain times and in certain places, for example. I’ve been reading Middlemarch by George Eliot. I’m at the middle of the book and it is almost the middle of March – how is that for irony 🙂 Anyway there […]
Desperate for a blog topic this morning, I went to a few “word of the day” sites, because they are often wonderful idea generators. I prefer the site, wordthing.com, because it’s easy to navigate, has a clean clear format and keeps a list of the previous six or seven words offered. Their word for today, however,
Last Saturday, my daughter was going out to dinner and then to a movie. As I’m always interested in a good restaurant, I asked her where she was going. Apparently, they were going to a place called “Bamburger.” I immediately thought of Bambi!! I wasn’t worried that they were serving venison, I just had this
…or maybe that should be, find your word mate. Someone posted a comment to one of my blogs and mentioned the site www.favoritewords.com. This is a site where you can store your favourite word or words and find people who have the same favourite words as you. You do have to login. I haven’t gone
I couldn’t resist this list of people who collect “things” from the site, Mental Floss. If I didn’t live in such a small house and if I didn’t worry so much about becoming my mother, I would collect more. I would definitely have been a stamp collector, philatelist. In fact the other day I was moaning that I had
“Let him who is without words throw the first stone..” I think that I need to practise a little stoning – that is creating stones – small pieces of writing that concentrate on something coming in through the senses. Here is a fuller description – Small Stones. I know that the challenge doesn’t start until
OK, I can be a little dramatic sometimes. Actually the title refers to a site that is starting a challenge – Oh, yes, another one and it is also a writing challenge. The site “Writing Our Way Home” is holding what they call their small stones challenge. The link explains it in detail, but briefly,
…Well, yes, this is what one would expect, however, I don’t think that anyone expected this. We were out for a walk, finally!! I was beginning to feel pretty “Cabin Fevered” because of the weather. The ice storm had made walking very treacherous and the extra three or four inches of fresh snow on top
Dec 21, 1913, apparently, is the first time a crossword puzzle appeared in print. It was created by a journalist, Arthur Wynne and published in the New York World. It was instantly popular and has grown exponentially over the last 100 years to the delight of enthusiast, such as, myself. I like all sorts of
