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Five Things I Didn’t Know about Mozart*

Posted on November 20, 2023 by Kathy

*and I’m only on page 370 I mentioned last week that I’m reading Mozart: The Reign of Love by Jan Swafford. I hope you didn’t expect me to have finished reading its 750+ pages by now. But I’m almost halfway! … Continue reading →

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Kiss on Our List

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Kathy

Some mysterious algorithm recently offered me a post about inosculation (in-ahs-cue-lay-shun), a naturally occurring grafting of trees. One tree seeming reaches out to another, and they grow into each other. They become conjoined organisms sharing nutrients and circulation. All very … Continue reading →

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Miscellany

Posted on November 12, 2023 by Kathy

I recently realized that my current reading is a very weird mix. I’ll describe the books I’m reading in order–from the sublime to the ridiculous, literally. The most ponderous is a 700+ page biography called Mozart: The Reign of Love … Continue reading →

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A Daily Word, Not Just for Wednesdays

Posted on October 12, 2023 by Kathy

Bloggers’ and YouTubers’ apologies for not recently posting are unnecessary and boring, in my opinion, so I’ll skip the regrets and excuses. Speaking of social media, however, here’s a word you may be noticing as much as I am: journey. … Continue reading →

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Read the Label

Posted on September 12, 2023 by Kathy

The Pringle is “a piece of malevolent technical genius, as a product deliberately designed to engineer obesity.” Chris Tulleken An ultra-processed food (UPF), according to doctor and author Chris Tulleken, can be defined as a product wrapped in plastic and … Continue reading →

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Stochastic Meandering

Posted on September 6, 2023 by Kathy

Learning a word’s history at the same time as its meaning helps reinforce our understanding of the word and remember it more effectively. If you know, for example, that volition comes from the Latin word volo, meaning “wish,” you’re likely … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Etymology

Posted on July 26, 2023 by Kathy

Before I began reading my next book group book, a novel called Lessons in Chemistry, I glanced at author Bonnie Garmus’s bio inside the back cover, where I saw that her dog’s name is 99. I wondered if Garmus had … Continue reading →

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Bad Air Quality

Posted on July 19, 2023 by Kathy

Malaria’s in the news, because we’ve seen cases in the US transmitted on our own soil, not carried in by a traveler–the cases totalling eight so far. Worldwide, it’s still a scourge, afflicting almost 250 million people every year, killing … Continue reading →

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A Linguistic Kerfuffle

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Kathy

My friend Jewel sent me a Washington Post article last week about Elon Musk and the term cisgender. In case you don’t know, cisgender refers to a person whose gender identity coincides with the sex with which the person was … Continue reading →

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J is for Jeans

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Kathy

At least that’s what A Grandmother’s ABC Book says. It’s on page 56. Super patriots may believe that blue jeans and their name began in America, but non vero (Italian for “not true”). Both the word and the pants began … Continue reading →

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