Wondrous Word Wednesday June 15, 2016

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love. Feel free to get creative! If you want to play along, grab the button at Kathy's blog, write a post and come back and add your link to Mr. Linky!

A friend on FB, mom of a 7 year old , he'll be 8 in July, posted this with a picture of him reading the computer screen of a game he is interested in playing. I had to look up redacted also!

"Proud (geek) Mom moment. Isaac read the entire character description without stumbling and only needed the definition for redacted."

redact - transitive verb

1: to put in writing : frame

2: to select or adapt (as by obscuring or removing sensitive information) for publication or release; broadly : edit

3: to obscure or remove (text) from a document prior to publication or release

During my deputy training, we were subjected to a lecture by a retired medical examiner visiting from Orlando who had made a name for herself in the field of forensic osteology

From my current read, The Cat Sitter's Whiskers by Blaize and James Clement

I could figure this one out, because of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. But I was unfamiliar with the word.

osteology - noun

Medical definition of osteology

1: a branch of anatomy dealing with the bones

2: the boney structure of an organism

Did you find any wondrous words in your reading or listening this week?


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First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros - 6-14-16 Broad Influence

Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea hosts this Tuesday meme. It is a place to share the first paragraph in the first chapter of a book you are reading or hope to get to soon. It is a great place to see what others are reading and add to your ever growing list of title to explore. So let's share. Write a post and then go link up at Diane's blog.

Broad Influence - How Women Are Changing the Way America Works
Jay Newton-Small
Time Books 2016


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THE WEST WING

One of the oldest boys' clubs in the country resides in the West Wing of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, a bastion of male power so obdurate that it has been among the slowest to open to women. In the 216 years from the country's founding until 1992, just 14 women served in the Cabinet; in the next 23 years, there's been some acceleration, with 20 women in Cabinet positions. When President Obama took office in January 2009, his secretaries of state, labor, homeland security and health and human services and the director of the Environmental Protection Agency were all women, as was his United Nations ambassador. 



I really wanted to share the introduction to this book too, but could not decide which paragraph would be more attractive. Do you read much non-fiction?  Do you ever read non-fiction?  This book was introduced to us by one our book club members who listens to a lot of NPR. She is also a recently retired social studies teacher from one of the Junior Highs in our small conservative city.

So would you read this one?  Regardless of which side of the aisle you sit on, women are moving from critical mass to broad influence in our country.


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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? June 13th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?  is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date. Share what you are reading, what you read recently or what you hope to get to in the coming week and then link up with Kathryn at Book Date. It is a great place to see what is going on in the blogosphere and to add to your reading lists.

 Still working on this collection, the first in the group is Ghostly Paws by Leighann Dobbs. 

I will like it I am sure, if I can just pick up my Kindle and get to it. 

I am enjoying this one too. Although it is the 10th in the Dixie Hemingway series, it doesn't feel as though I have missed anything. Dixie tells her back story, or least parts of it, well enough that I do not feel lost at all. I am pretty sure I will gladly pick up the first several in this series. ( This one was won in a Giveaway at Cathy's blog, Kittling: Books.Thanks again Cathy)


Next I will select either:  Broad Influence by Jay Newton-Small,  one of my book club's summer selections

2016 will be one of the most historic years in politics: It marks the potential for the first female President of the United States, and the 100th anniversary of the first woman elected to Congress. Additionally, in 2016, single women will be one of the most pivotal voting groups heading into the general election, being courted by both Democrats and Republicans.

or The Quilter's Homecoming by Jennifer Chiaverini, a series I started years ago and then let fall away. 

  

Hope your week is productive on the reading front and enjoyable too. 

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Saturday Snapshots June 11 2016

To participate in Saturday Snapshot: post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken then leave a direct link to your post in the Mister Linky on Melinda's blog, West Metro Mommy Reads .  Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes to see. How much detail you give in the caption is entirely up to you. Please don’t post random photos that you find online

Today I am sharing some photos taken by friends and family. A collection of summer scenes. 

This one was taken by my sister on a morning walk. She is lucky enough to have a wilderness area close to her home. She calls it Double Ducks. 

My sister-in-law and my brother are new retirees and are very good at finding fun things to do and places to go, just because.  My home town of Rapid City SD, has developed a Downtown Plaza in recent years. There is a celebration every Thursday night. Music, food, and events. Last Thursday it was very warm, finally and the fountain was turned on. They allow kids to play in the fountain.

And a friend discovered this beauty among the flowers on display at Walmart. I think it is stunning!

Hope everyone has or is having a great weekend.

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Review: Chesapeake Song by Brenda Lane Richardson

Her thirteen-year marriage troubled by hurt and doubts, Tamra Lane embarks on a spiritual journey into her past and draws strength from the experiences of her mother and grandmother.

Although I felt this book started slowly, I grew more and more drawn into the story. It is a love story that explores the paths our lives take based on our childhood, or heritage, or experiences. Tamra loves her husband. She loves her children. How then can she walk away in search for herself. Ms. Richardson uses flashbacks to explore Tamra's life in Nanticoke Maryland, her family relationships and the consequences of her life and her relationships. The story involves love, marriage, family obligations, careers, substance abuse, life and death. It is a story worth exploring and I was happy with the ending. It's just life after all. 

Although I purchased this book a long while ago, so it doesn't meet the criteria for Read The Books  You Buy Challenge 2016 hosted by Kathryn at Book Date, it does meet the guidelines for the 2016 Women's Fiction Reading Challenge.  

This book is out of print, but you may be able to find it at your library or used book store. When I looked today, Amazon has it on sale for $5.60 and only 1 left!!  Just FYI!

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Wondrous Words Wednesday 6-8-16

Kathy at Bermuda Onion hosts Wondrous Words Wednesday. A chance to highlight words you find while reading or occasionally by listening. Share your words then link up with Kathy's blog so we can all learn a new wondrous word.

This week I was neglectful in taking note of words while reading. I was so focused on finally finishing a book that I just soldiered on.  So I will check out my Word of the Day email from Miriam Webster. 

ululate - verb    

: howl or wail 

I remember seeing this word and even looking it up in the past. But I did not remember it. So I guess a refresher is in order. 

Two examples from the email. 

"Millions of pop culture devotees weep and ululate over the death of David Bowie. His passing is noteworthy, given his significant celebrity profile, but I shall miss [journalist] George Jonas' contributions more." — Randall Bell, letter in The National Post (Canada), 13 Jan. 2016   "They talked loud in their language, and together they sounded like mourners ululating." — Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come, 2005 (2008)

foozle - verb   

to manage or play akwardly,  bungle

Examples from the email:

After the receiver foozled the catch, the kicking team recovered the ball at the opponent's 10-yard line.   "He foozled a short putt on the 72nd green at Southern Hills in Tulsa that would've won him the 2001 Open, then played solidly in a Monday playoff and defeated Mark Brooks for the title." — Gary Van Sickle, Golf.com, 30 July 2015

I am going to have to remember this one. I am sure I will have ample opportunity to use it in the upcoming football season. Hopefully, not when my favorite team has the ball!

Did you find any wondrous words this week?

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First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros - Cat Sitter's Wiskers

Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea hosts this Tuesday meme. It is a place to share the first paragraph in the first chapter of a book you are reading or hope to get to soon. It is a great place to see what others are reading and add to your ever growing list of title to explore. So let's share. Write a post and then go link up at Diane's blog.

The Cat Sitter's Whiskers
Blaize & John Clement
2015
A Dixie Hemingway Mystery #10



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It was a little after 5:00 on Monday morning when I pulled my bike out and brushed off the dewy cobwebs that had appeared between the spokes overnight. The sky was coal-black except for the vaguest hint of pale pink breaking at the horizon to the east. I knew once the sun got herself situated it would be hot as blue blazes, but for now there was a cool breeze riding in on the waves from the ocean, so I zipped up my hoodie before I rolled across the courtyard. 



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