Words, words, words

Do you have favorite words in your head that you use often? Not curse words that you use because you can’t think of the real word you really want to use. Words that pop into your conversation that you never tire of, but hope others don’t notice that you use them too often. Some words just roll around your tongue like a favorite dessert, and lay there feeding your innards. Some words take practice, repeating them over and over until they roll out like it was something natural for you to say. Like fettucine, linguine, prosciutto, funghi freschi, castagne, zuppa inglese. Forgive the food names, I’ve just finished reading ‘Poet of the Appetites” The Lives and Loves of MFK Fisher by Joan Reardon and it’s still sitting just under my surface. Her foods were French but mine are Italian. Once you conquer the correct sounds of words that are difficult at first try, they become fun to say.

A few of the words I use too often are delighted, sensuous, passion, positive, synchronicity and enjoy. I love all those words. The most recent word to creep into my flow of words, slowly and quietly, is “y’all.”

Second Bordentown NJ Ghost Book

Second Bordentown NJ Ghost Book
Before I left Bordentown as a hometown to return to whenever I need a hometown ‘fix,’ I recorded twelve new stories of hauntings in Bordentown for the next book. Like the second Arcadia Bordentown book, I’ve expanded my area of ghostly doings into the township. If there are any Fieldsboro spirits floating around, connecting to mere mortals, I’d like to hear about those also.

The next trip north is scheduled for May when I will record another ten stories waiting for me. This is the first time I have written from listening to cassette tapes. I have a new respect for stenographers who earn their living doing this on a daily basis. It isn’t easy. My cassette player back-up button gets a lot of use.

For anyone with a personal story of things that ‘go bump in the night, or daytime, either’ please get in touch with me. I’d love to hear all about it. Enjoy.

Warrenton NC Writing Group

We enjoyed great fun at the first meeting of the women’s writing group in Warrenton, NC. Seven women came to hone their writing skills, laugh, talk and share experiences. Two women, never having met before, actually found that they both know the same person up in Newark NJ. For a February subject, all eight of us wrote about how we met a person we love, or have loved, in our lives. Some stories were hilariously funny, some poignant, some touching. All were interesting.

Writing together is a marvelous way to connect with like people, to heal yourself and to show others your view of the world. We reluctantly ended the evening before eight o’clock when the library closed. The IWWG is again responsible for forming a great group of women writers.