Our writing word for today is “key.” It’s a word I gave to the writing challenge and it came to mind because I am “key” challenged. I have more keys than locks. I have little tubs of keys, scattered throughout the house, which belonged to locks at one time – but damned if I can […]
Our writing word for today is “wisp.” To me much of what makes life enjoyable are small “wisps” of “things.” I am sitting here beside two pink peonies that are very fragrant. I inhale a wisp of their perfume, from time to time. It is subtle, like the spray of lilac that nods across my
My friend has started a “Go-Fund Me” campaign to help bring the minimum wage project, which was started by the Liberal government and cancelled by the new government, to completion. It has one more year after this one, to run its course and be accurately evaluated. People on the program – 4,000 in all, have
Our word for today is “together.” It’s a lovely word and a lovely concept. I love “get-to-gethers.” In fact I’m going to one in September. I get together with friends I went to elementary school with. There are ten of us. It’s quite the gathering. We used to celebrate all the significant birthdays of that
Our word for today is synchronicity – meaningful coincidences. We’ve all had them. It’s that time when you said, “I was thinking of calling, so and so, when all of a sudden the phone rings and it’s so snd so.” There is a theory that there is a time in the universe, when concepts were
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 cigarette… I want to say it’s an old word. Not many people, I know smoke and the ones that did are dead. But there was a time, in film particularly, when smoking added to the allure of life. Most movie stars smoked and the famous ones are remembered for their
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
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 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
