Category: Wonderings
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Utterly Fabulous Words
Words that made my week: scintilla (n.) a tiny, brilliant flash or spark; a small thing; a barely-visible trace. skinship (n.) bonding through the intimacy of touch, especially of the closeness between a parent and child amarinthine (adj.) undying, immortal; eternally beautiful (adj.) a deep purple-red peripeteia (n.) a sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances;…
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A Fifty Shades of Grey Rant
My mother-in-law asked Phil if he was taking me to see Fifty Shades of Grey for Valentine’s Day. There’s not enough UGH in the world for that concept. “Fifty Shades tells a story of what is really grooming by a stalker – a seasoned perpetrator going after a much younger, more immature woman. She doesn’t…
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Biblioperambulation
I don’t know when I started reading while I walked. Probably when I began secondary school and suddenly had the dead time of a familiar route on my hands every day. Not a particularly scenic route, so no need for exalted appreciation of my surroundings: just dead time. In my house, dead time didn’t really…
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Getting Younger
I am regressing. I am doing things that I didn’t do or didn’t do enough when I was a little. Things I couldn’t afford or didn’t have the gumption for as a younger, more worried person. Things like owning a leather coat and going to see The Prodigy on a Monday night* because rave. I…
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