Joyfully Retired

Wednesday is the day I participate in Wondrous Words Wednesday. It’s the day we celebrate new words we find as we read. It still amazes me that I keep finding new words every week. I’m still working my way through Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny. It’s a wonderful book that I’m allowing myself to [...]

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a fun meme created by Kathy @ Bermuda Onion. I love to play each week. It keeps me looking for new words wherever I’m reading. Occasionally I come across a word that looks sort-of familiar. Instead of skipping over the word, I’ve challenged myself to stop and check it out. I’d [...]

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a fun meme created by Kathy @ Bermuda Onion. I love to play each week. It keeps me looking for new words wherever I’m reading. I found several new-to-me words while reading a NY Times book review of The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud. (The article is here.) Here’s what I [...]

Thanks for stopping by to see what new words I discovered this week. I usually find new words wherever I happen to be reading, but this week I didn’t find any new words. Actually, I didn’t do much reading. (I spent the week getting to know my new grandson.) However, my ever-faithful Word-A-Day Calendar always [...]

It’s Wednesday and my day to focus on words. This week something hit me  in this World of Words. It occurred while watching Season 3 of West Wing. The story involves the fictional U.S. President’s campaign for reelection. His announcement speech uses the word torpor.  Consultants hired from outside the normal staff want the word taken out [...]

Thanks for stopping by to see what new words I discovered this week. I usually find new words wherever I happen to be reading. New-to-me words are everywhere! I do notice that my eyes are better at catching new words than my ears. While listening to audiobooks, as I do more often now, I hardly [...]

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a fun meme I love to play each week. It keeps me looking for new words wherever I’m reading. I found only two words this week. One was in the book review section of the New York Times and the other in a short story by Agatha Christie. In an article [...]

As you can see from the number in the title above, I have been playing Wondrous Words Wednesday every week for about four years. That’s a lot of words! I usually find two to three words every week, so that’s probably close to 1000 new-to-me words total. To celebrate this milestone I decided to repost [...]

Wednesday is the day I participate in Wondrous Words Wednesday. It’s the day we celebrate new words we find as we read. It still amazes me that I keep finding new words every week. This week I’m sharing some words I found while reading The Missing File. 1. elegiac: “. . . and Ze’ev opened [...]

Thanks for stopping by to see what new words I discovered this week. I usually find new words wherever I happen to be reading. This week I found them in The Tortilla Curtain by T.C.Boyle. 1. scrim: “He was about to give it up and jog to the lumberyard for ;help, for the police, an [...]