Several years ago, my husband and I were teaching a Bible class for young children. I started to hand out pieces of different, colored construction…
For today’s Weird Word Wednesday, let’s look at three words which I recently included in Pamela’s Prompts: kenspeckle, xerarch and zaftig. Yesterday, we explored writing…
Here’s a writing prompt for all you poets out there, and those who are poets and don’t yet know it. (Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.)…
Valentine’s Day is sneaking up on us. It’s exactly one week from today. Are you ready? No matter if your valentine is your fiancé/fiancée, your…
Crash! Three days before Christmas, my husband and I heard the unmistakable sound of breaking glass. We hurried downstairs, thinking that our always-curious cat Quill…
For today’s Weird Word Wednesday, let’s look at three words which deal with the human body: Calcaneus, nyctalopia and trichotillomania. Here’s what www.merriam-webster (unabridged edition)…
Tomorrow is Groundhog Day and in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania (say that three times fast) legend has it that if a groundhog emerges from its burrow and…
Over the holidays, I was delighted to see that our neighborhood had erected a Little Free Library. The cute, bright-yellow library is shaped like a…
As soon as you open a browser window, the headlines scream things at you like “Texas Girl Gets Trapped in Sewage Drain by Two Large…
For today’s Weird Word Wednesday, let’s look at three foodie words which have German origins: Lebkuchen, zwieback and schnitzel. Yummy. I’m already hungry! The German…