This week, I read an interesting and thought-provoking article titled “The animals that detect disasters” on the BBC’s Future Planet site. Written by Norman Miller…
For today’s Weird Word Wednesday, let’s look at three words which fall into the category of “I didn’t know there was a word for that!”…
In the past decade, escape rooms have become a popular form of entertainment for groups of friends, family members, or even work colleagues. An escape…
If you’ve ever relaxed on the grass on a warm day and watched the clouds float lazily by, you may have played a game to…
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)…