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Why We Reread
My friend Jacques over Christmas said he was reading Hemingway’s Movable Feast I’m assuming not for the first time (he’s a big reader). Another friend was tearing through Middlemarch, George Eliot’s...
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Pluck
I first heard this word in a book describing Bobby Kennedy having no idea what it meant. Then I heard it again on a West Wing episode when Sam tells Mandy she has it, and she also didn’t know its...
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Love Of Words
Crestfallen: an adjective sad and disappointed : he came back empty-handed and crestfallen. It’s one of those words you read more than use though I occasionally toss it in a sentence never failing to...
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Punctilous
Here’s a word that’s buried in another time. Punctilious, an adjective: showing great attention to detail or correct behavior : he was punctilious in providing every convenience for his guests....
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Preen
Preen, a verb…to devote effort to making oneself look attractive and then admire one’s appearance : adolescents preening in their bedroom mirrors. To preen, congratulate or pride oneself : he’s busy...
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A Way With Words
Churlish: an adjective suggesting rudeness in a mean-spirited and surly way…ill-mannered, ill-bred, discourteous, impolite, unmannerly, uncivil, unchivalrous; inconsiderate, uncharitable, surly,...
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A Word Please
Ken – a noun meaning – one’s range of knowledge or sight; awareness, perception, vision, understanding…being within one’s grasp. Comprehension, realization, appreciation, consciousness – to put it...
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Susannah’s Spring, Summer Reading List 2016
Reading is very personal, something I’ve recently learned no longer sending as gifts, what I think people should read. With few exceptions, no one ever seems to care for my choices. So instead, I’ll...
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An Nocturnal Word
Crepuscular, from the Latin word crepusculun, meaning related to twilight, or as the movies call it, the magic hour. It’s when dusk descends into dark, as if nature flips a switch…black, murky, shadowy...
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A Word for the Woebegone
Now there’s a word, but not the one I’m about to dissect in all its dismal glory, though a sister word meaning…sad. My friend David will always zero in on one that tends to give me pause. This time it...
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How Words Can Make Your Day
I love language of any kind, but old style words thrill me the most, the feel of them, like slipping into a vintage dress. Alighted is my latest, coming across it at least ten times in three different...
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When A Word Woos
I so love words, their sound, how they flirt from the page. Like men, every once in a while one really catches my eye, so allow me to introduce my latest beau, courtly. I was rereading The Killer...
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