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This week’s word of the week is: vamoose. Derived from the Spanish vamos, meaning, “let us go” it’s a word most of us probably associate with old-time prospectors and prairie folk, it originally was used to mean “to decamp”, as in “let’s vamoose”, although it’s also been used as a command as far back as […]
It’s time for the Just Write Summer Reading Contest! This summer I’m re-reading Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. You’re probably familiar with the Disney version, but the original was darker, stranger, and often more frightening than anything Disney would have gotten away with. Instead of opening with Gepetto making a puppet and wishing on a star, […]
I love dictionaries because it’s so amazing how words mean what they mean, how they can evolve through time, taking on completely different meanings. And they’re flexible in their meanings. Take, for instance, this definition from one of my favorite dictionaries:
Marge Piercy’s Woman On The Edge Of Time is an eerily quixotic story, contrasting a dark present with a potentially beautiful, although threatened, future. What does it say about our culture when a crazy person might be the sanest one among us? Throughout the novel we’re confronted with the question: is Connie Ramos crazy, or […]
Today is the scheduled landing date of the Mars Phoenix Mission, which is studying Martian ice and the possibility of life on the red planet. It’s one of a long series of recent Mars missions. While the Mars Pathfinder, which landed July 4th, 1997, is, arguably, the most famous in recent missions (not including the […]
This week’s word of the week is: ubiquitous. Derived from the Latin word ubique, it’s simply a fancy way of saying, “found everywhere”. For an interesting use of the word “ubiquitous”, check out the article Focusing on U. gibba–the “U” stands for ubiquitous by Dr. Barry Rice. Actually the “U” in U. gibba stands for […]
The other morning on the radio I was barely listening to a report about a special by-election in the British district of Crewe and Nantwich, but senior Labour Party member Frank Dobson immediately grabbed my attention when he referred to the Conservative Party candidate as a “flibbertigibbet toff”. First of all, I’d like to apologize […]
Earlier this week I stumbled across an article about travel to Suriname, a country that’s rocketed to the top of my list of places to see. There are still many places I want to visit, but Suriname is safer than Sri Lanka, easier to get to than Easter Island, and warmer than Norway. And it’s […]
There have been so many times when I’ve been looking at a work of art that I wished I could meet the artist, ask them questions, or just tell them how much I like their work. And then, by pure luck, I was at the Sarratt Gallery and a tall, white-haired woman with glasses was […]
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