Our word for today is fête. It’s French for celebration. Posting about bread, or at least grain, yesterday, had me thinking about festivities. I equate festivities with food. Or, maybe, it’s food that makes things festive. Lunch, with a baguette from Jules, our French patisserie around the corner, and some cheese is always a celebration, […]
Our word today is grain. Again another one of those words that says so much, so simply. Grain is the stuff of life. It’s a staple. Depending on where you live, it can be wheat, rice, maize etc. It’s a symbol of the richness of life – friends and families “breaking bread.” I admire people
The word for today is “sparked.” It’s that point of ignition – you need a spark to start a car, a fire, an idea, a war…..and so on. I often have “sparks.” I get an idea. I take it so far and then it fizzles. Meh, maybe it just wasn’t meant to be or I
Our word for today is “breasts.” It’s not a word I would have chosen. I’m not comfortable with intimacy and breasts speak of intimacy. There is also something very carnal about them. I am always uncomfortable with women who show too much cleavage. I was raised to believe that if you advertised “sex” with your
I enjoyed writing my blog on nicknames so much, that I decided to do another for all the names I had missed. Most of these names would be for places rather than people. Wikipedia lists more monikers than you will ever need in a lifetime, here. Of the ones listed, I am in awe of
The word for today is “sobriquet.” It means nickname or epithet. It’s such a sophisticated word for such a common subject. I found it in a crossword clue – “Hemingway sobriquet.” The answer, of course, is “Papa.” I have spent a great deal of my life, trying to figure out how people get nicknames. These
The word today is “grandmother.” I often say, “I plant the flowers that grew in my grandmother’s garden.” I was my grandmother’s child even though we were not related biologically. My grandmother adopted my mother, after her son had died at the age of seven of scarlet fever. My grandmother came from the Saar valley
Our word for today is “locus,” which the dictionary defines as, a place, position or location. I found it in a mystery book by Ann Cleeves. It suggested something important. The locus of a crime, for example, might be where the crime happened or where a body was found, but the person not actually murdered
The third word in our blog posting exercise is “hook.” It’s one of those words or concepts that is both very simple and yet, very complex. On one level a hook is an object that is useful. I think of all the hooks beside back doors where people conveniently hang coats, hats, bags etc. Here
The word for our blog posts today is “dazzle.” So, of course I couldn’t just stop there. I had to go the whole nine yards, well, OK, five words – razzle, dazzle, sis, boom, bah! When in doubt look it up – “razzle dazzle” means 1 : a state of confusion or hilarity. 2 :
