Today I bought “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” by John Koenig. I have mentioned this book before in an earlier post. It’s a must read for anyone interested in words. Basically, it is a lexicon of terms the author has coined to deal with those feelings we all have, but are unable to express because […]
…..From several weeks of trying to “frack” Joy from the slate of “nothing interesting to report,” there comes the motherload of refinable Joys. 1. My son has spent five splendid days with us. He was out East (from Calgary) for a wedding and stayed with us for a whole week before going back home!! Totally
I am a warm weather person. As a family, we went to Florida in August. I could live in the tropics. How I ended up in the cold of Canada is something I often ask myself. This last week, though, was a warming up week. Everyday that the temperatures nudged up – 14ºC, 15ºC, 16ºC…
It’s been a quiet week leading up to a long weekend. Monday is a statutory holiday in honour of Queen Victoria. I’m sorry. I’m a royalist and I celebrate our connections to Britain, if only for the traditions that give purpose and meaning (maybe) to our lives. The 24th of May, or whenever it is
I have a list…yes, OK, I have dozens of list. They are there to avoid a “listless life” – no pun intended!! One of the items on my list for the front of the back yard…..(it’s a big yard)…is to stop a basement window sill from rotting. “Something there is that doesn’t like a wall
Mostly the weather this week has been very “unjoyous.” After a week of summer, we are back into the cold and grey of a Winter/Spring. However, coffee this week with a friend was joyous! In fact my friend recommended a book that I might like – “Obscure Sorrows.” The author, John Koenig, creates words based
OK, I probably didn’t have to put the word, ovenable, in quotation marks. It is a word, as words go, however, I have never heard it before. Yes, I have a Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and it is, sad to say, not in it. Well, it’s an old edition. I actually found the word “ovenable”
I am always amazed at the energy generated by warmer weather and longer days. When it’s cold and dark, I have very little desire to get things done. However, as soon as the snow melts and the days lengthen I have the enthusiasm to “do a million things at once.” As I have said before,
….. OK every once in a while the cosmos delivers a week of pure Joy! Maybe it’s a dividend for months of Winter’s hardship or maybe it’s just a random numbers “thing” – you know the more you hang in there the more you get. I’m not sure what the rationale is or if there
My name is not Blanche and I am not a character in a Tennessee Williams’ play. I’ll reserve comment on the author’s chosen name later. However, I am a person in need of help from time to time, because I struggle, as many of us do, to: 1. Pay the bills. 2. Do the right
