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What’s in your wallet, er, stash? Here are some of the items stashed in our house:
This Chicka Boom Booms
Peace, Love, Joy, and Contentment be this Chicka-Boomer – what about Thee? Want to try the Bill Martin alphabet tree?
Dietary Con-foods-ion
I recently attended a health seminar, focused on the elements of best dietary practice for Youngsters, Elders, and Ever-Youngs like me. Here’s the amalgamation, most often polysyllabic words that my mind can’t digest. Can yours? It’s dietary con-foods-ion time:
Social Security and Dynamite
What do these two things have in common? Ka-boom!
They were birthed in Stockholm – according to Rick Steves, the travel raconteur of public television. He is a Baby Boomer, so we grant him instant cred, the wisdom earned via a well-focused life of world travel, like ours. We’ve been following his ‘Back Door’ travel plans in Europe for year.
What I also think they have in common is: their volatility. Both can blow things up! Just try bringing up Social Security at a multi-generational family event…you might as well light dynamite all around the room. Ka-Boomer, Boom, Boom!
JOMO or MOJO?
Your Alphabet Soup of Socialization: MOJO or JOMO?
Peter the Pumpkin Eater
Peter the Pumpkin EaterHere we are in the calendar year, in the calorie-laden territory of pumpkin; my husband craves its pie.
He is Larry the Pumpkin Pie Eater. With a belly to match his taste buds, though it doesn’t get in the way of hugs, so we nevermind.
For a man who expounds on his hatred of dessert, that Larry adds poundage this way is as nonsensical as a nursery rhyme.
Scarf It Up!
I once had a near-Nordstrom experience with Jessica Simpson, the smartest ‘dumb blonde’ of our generation. I walked by the South Coast Plaza store just as she dashed to her limousine and sped off. Cosmic timing a little off, I felt certain that she’s the one who missed out. I didn’t crave her proximity.
Inside Nordy’s space, I queried a sales clerk, learning that Jessica’d launched her fragrance line with papparazi cameras competing with the store’s lighting for her attention.
Oh well. As usual in life, ‘too little to late’.
Word of the Day: Zeugma
You know that I am a lover of words, alliteration, onomonopea, all syllables and sounds that glide off the tongue tip as smoothly as gin glides on.
Here’s a good one, a ‘doozie’ to behold: Zeugma.
PRONUNCIATION:
(ZOOG-muh)
Sounds like the car horn of yesteryear, doesn’t it! On a car that, perhaps, delivered ‘bathtub gin’… Let it zoom into your ears.
MEANING:
noun: The use of a word to refer to two or more words, especially in different senses.
Examples: “He caught a fish and a cold” or “She lost her ring and her temper.”
All’s Hammers
Alzheimer’s Disease has been a focus of the books I’ve read of late: Still Alice 
and We are Not Ourselves, a novel written by a UCI MFA that seemed like a son’s family tale, not fiction, unveiled in excruciating detail.
I didn’t select the books for this purpose, didn’t know the story content before I began.
Omgod-incidence! I wonder if He is trying to alert me to my end-of-life theme. To learn about and mediate life crises and issues is a compelling force of reading, as you know, to mitigate unholy crap!
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