Smog is a wonderful word. Not used nearly enough, I’d say. There are a number of personages in my life who have started using the term inversion. The people I know who use this word aren’t even meteorologists. Inversion is a meteorological term meaning the atmosphere is layered. Certain portions of the layers are warm, …
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A short list of long words
Apophenia: the tendency to mentally relate a series of potentially unrelated ideas. When someone employs apophenia, they seem to be bouncing randomly from one subject to the next, making connections between things though the connections are questionable. Extrasensory: not related to the five common senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell). A person could develop an …
OK is not okay.
Since man lived in a cave the arguments over words have been enduring. If you’ve ever had an argument about words, you know how ludicrous the battles can be. However, if you haven’t, then you might be surprised at how many ways people can argue about words. The word okay, for example, has shown up …
We Call Louder
Sometimes they don’t answer. We call a few times. Then we call louder. We know they’re out there. We know it’s important that they eat the meal we’ve prepared for them, so we keep calling. Watch for the signs, you’ll know they’re there too. Birds suddenly abandoning a perfectly good tree is one sign. Branches …
New Novel
I finished another novel. When writers say they’ve finished a novel, they don’t mean finished. If you didn’t know, there are all these next steps after a novel is finished. There’s alpha reading, editing, revision, beta reading, more revision, proofreading, even writing the ever-dreaded blurb (that paragraph usually found on the back of a book …
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