Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.

- Graycie Harmon

Friday, January 27, 2012

Where In The World?





If you're wondering where I've been all this time, I've been HERE. And that's where I'm staying.


Saturday, December 31, 2011

Old Woman's Luck

Have the wind in one's face both going and returning; Oxfordshire.
- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905

Good Bye, An Author's Journey. It was wonderful!

Friday, December 30, 2011

Tachydidaxy

A short method of teaching.
- Joseph Worcester's Dictionary of the English Language, 1881

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Giglet

A merry. light-hjearted, playful, romping girl; a giddy, silly, thoughtless girl; a wanton, a strumpet. Hence, gigleting, laughing in a foolish manner; trifling behavior.
- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905

Giglot, a female laughing or playing wantonly.
- Walter Skeat's Specimens of English Dialects, Westmoreland, 1879

"Away with those giglets too, and with the other confederate companion."
- William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, 1604

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Bulkateer

A person who judges by the bulk or size, and overlooks the real merit.
- Maurice Weseen's Dictionary of American Slang, 1934