Our word for today is biscuit. I love this word because it has a cluster of meanings. First it’s a food. A biscuit is a British cookie. Here’s a site that rates 21 of them, with phrases such as, “As British as Michael Caine, roundabouts and glaring at but not saying anything to people who […]
Our word for today is volatile – extremely changeable. I realized the last few words that I have given for our writing exercise were turbulent, circuitous and now volatile. Is someone trying to tell me something? Is there mischief afoot? I work at staying calm. Yes, there are times when I erupt! I have to
I wrote about circuitous the other day and didn’t really have a great example of how I complicate my life in wild circuitous loops. Well, one of those loops happened yesterday. I have decided that I want to do some interesting walking tours, abroad. Most of these adventures require you to walk 15 to 20kms
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
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
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
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
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
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
