Thirteen Cool Words - Christine Kane

The Thursday Thirteen is the most popular meme on the internet. I regularly read Michelle’s Thursday Thirteens, and I’ve followed the links on the site to read some pretty funny and original stuff.

So, today is the 100th edition of the Thursday Thirteen. An excellent time for me to join in.

I love words. And I love hearing and learning new words. Some of that is just born out of being a songwriter. But even before I started writing professionally, I savored the sound and meaning of words.

Below is a list of my 13 favorite words. I can’t really explain why I love them. It’s not so much about meaning as it is about the feeling of them in your mouth. Like candy almost.

1 – Tornadic

It just rolls off the tongue. “There was tornadic activity along Interstate 40 today.” You hardly ever hear this word.

2 – Gubernatorial

You don’t hear this word much either. My ideal sentence would be something like, “There was tornadic activity during the gubernatorial elections.”

3 – Skank

Skank is just a funny word. Period. With so many uses. “Does this dress make me look like a skank?” Or “There’s some weird pile of skank out on the deck.”

4 – Anemone

The first time I heard the word “anemone,” I remember saying it over and over to myself as I drove in my car. (I had been hiking with friends, and we were talking about native plants.) It’s a lovely rolling-around-on-your-tongue word. And it wouldn’t be nearly as cool if it were spelled like it’s pronounced.

5 – Stochastic

The newest addition to my collection. About a month ago, I wrote a blog about investing my Roth IRA money. One of the stock market tools I learned about is called the “stochastic indicator.” I walked around my house saying “stochastic” for days after I heard it. Read more about stochastic here.

6 – Resplendent

This is just a beautiful word in both meaning and syllabic delicacy.

7 – Sanctuary

Beautiful word. It conjures up so many images and ideals and such a sense of peace. I also love sanctity.

8 – Exacerbate

Exacerbate is just fun to say.

9 – Obsequious

Another fun one to say.

10 – Subterfuge

Just a cool word. When I first learned it, I kept trying to figure out ways to insert it into conversation. Not easy!

11 – Cantankerous

This is not only a fun word to say, but it’s sometimes a fun word to BE.

12 – Miasmic

I learned this word when I was reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I rushed to look it up, and then I said it over and over again – along with “miasma” – letting it roll all over my tongue and relishing it’s meaning. Then I overused it for a while and annoyed everyone around me.

13 – Patticusian (patt-ih-coos-ee-an)

Every list of favorite words should have at least one made up word.

So, the origin of this word is as follows:

My cat’s name is Atticus. After a year or so he became Atticus Patticus. Atticus is quite dignified. So, I began calling him Mr. Patticus. Mr. Patticus has many interesting personality traits, as well as some of the most original napping positions.

One night my husband was trying to fall asleep. I was lying next to him, wide awake and having conversations with myself. It was quiet in our room, and I said, “So, if the word “dickensian” is used to describe writing or themes that are similar to those of Charles Dickens, could we use the word “patticusian” to to describe behaviors that are similar to those of Mr. Patticus?” This caused my husband to roll over and look at me for a long moment in which I’m sure he was questioning his decision to marry me.

Anyway, it stuck. And we use it often in our house when we are not lost in all the skank and miasma…

What are your favorite words? And do you have any made-up words to share?

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  • Broke Food

    My favorite word is panacea. Good meaning to boot.

  • Jace

    Some words I like would be voracious, cyclonical, threshold, bombastic, cartographer, aflatoxin, aggregate, immolate, vagrant, malevolent, and eviscerate just to name a few. I love how they seem to have this powerful sound to them.

  • Stacey

    One of my favorites is “Eh?” Pronounced “A” but there isn’t an ‘a’ present. It just makes me all warm and fuzzy when I hear people around me using it. Likely because when that happens I’m typically in the “True North Strong and Free”. Contrary to popular belief, the word does come with meaning. It’s the tack on of a “Do you agree?” “Are you with me?” “Still following what I say?” It’s delivery is most authentic and inviting with the “Canadian rising” of intonation at sentence end.

  • Austin

    i like those.

  • Laura

    I also enjoy words and the visual effects that can be created by the right word used at just the right time. One of my favorite words in “Panancea” or cure-all.
    After I do tai chi, I feel as if that is a panancea for the body, mind and soul.

  • Joie

    Pussnicker = kittens; we don’t even refer to our cat as a cat anymore, instead as a pussnicker. We often find ourselves explaining what we are talking about. Its just a fun create word that I made up when I got my first kitten.

    Pupsnicker = puppies; was created after everyone became acquainted with pussnicker and loved it.

    Cacatapuss = a word that my 4-year-old niece uses to call a cactus. We aren’t sure where she got it but she cracks everyone up when she says it!

    Stunk = Great word in general. My 3-year-old daughter has always tried to say Skunks (we live in a very wooded area and see them often), but it always comes out Stunk. How appropriate!

  • Heather

    My made up word that stuck: Shboos, pronounced Shh-Boos. It means my jeans (as in denim pants). Often, my brain doesn’t work as fast as my mouth – so my mouth just fills in the gaps with its own creations.

  • Todd

    I love epiphnic…also mellifluous

  • Laurie

    Antidienstablishmentarism and chisenbop are two words I remember Ed McMahon saying on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I think that started my love affair of repeating words in my head.
    I love the word simply, nothing can be done simply now days.
    I found your blog while googling how to make a vision board. I could get lost in here. Thanks,
    Laurie

  • Jan Brittan

    My favorite invented word is “gagacious.” You know just what it means, and it’s so much more gracious than, “Ick.”

    I also enjoy making the occasional list of beautiful/ugly words. (“Gracious” should be on everyone’s Beauty list.)Now I have to go get my notebook and check!

  • Marianne

    My family has made up lots of words, the best of which came back to me while reading through these comments: bibbibobber. It’s one of those hairties shaped like a figure 8 with a plastic marble thing on each end and a metal crimp in the middle. It reminds me of getting in the pool as a kid.

  • toby

    ‘Queue’ is one of my favorites. It sounds like a letter in the alphabet, but it takes four extra (unnecessary) letters to spell it. It’s fun to write, it’s fun to type, and it’s fun to spell out loud. It’s also fun to mispronounce as “kwee” in front of unsuspecting people.

  • ccmhats

    Here’s a favorite since high school:

    sesquipedalian

    which can mean = using long words needlessly, or when applied to a single word, means = polysyllabic (nearly as fun!)

    Other favorites are:

    fricassee
    sassafras
    & flibbertigibbet.

    A bonus phrase, to be used when you encounter a dog whose pedigree you’re unsure of:

    “Ah! An andalusian schnapplehund, I presume?”

  • Andrew Wojcik

    My personal favourite is inspire, which I think sounds even nicer in the original Latin – ‘inspirare.’ Most literally, it means ‘to breathe life into,’ which is really what I think inspiration is all about. Inspiration is truly like a breath. I like to think about this word sometimes when I am singing.

    You mentioned ‘miasma’ which is certainly one of my favourites too, but some other nice ones are Zephyr and Cthonian (silent C – ‘related to the underworld’).

    -Andrew

  • Jayne Bowers

    What a fun blog! As I was perusing the words, I found myself ruminating about how awesome it is that we can take a few of the 26 letters of the English alphabet and arrange them in a way that can inspire, titillate, depress, soothe, motivate, instruct, etc. another person. Words can ruin the reputation of someone, put a song in another’s heart, and send yet another into the depths of despair.

    Okay, I’m getting a little off the subject here, so I’ll close with my favorite word of the day: stellar. I often remind my daughters, friends, and relatives of their stellar qualities and encourage them to wear star-shaped jewelry as a visible symbol.

  • Anna Farmery

    Now the challenge is to write the song…can’t wait to download a little ditty that uses all the above 13 in the verse – let me know when it is done!!!

  • Eve

    I like nefarious. The first time I used it, my husband had never heard it before and accused me of making up words.

  • Megan

    Two favorite words: scuppernong and dang! Just saying dang! makes me smile at whatever caused me to say it.

  • Brad Shorr

    Well done! You have assembled an awesome list of words. Keeping my fingers crossed that I run into a resplendently obsequious skank today, just so I can talk about it!

  • Angie Hartford

    Veranda. It almost sounds like a girl’s name.

  • Jackie Gaston

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  • Amy

    What a great list! Some of my favorite words are also in your list: Gubernatorial and Anemone. I’ve always wondered why, if we use the word Gubernatorial for the election of Governors, why don’t we call them Gubers?
    Anemone is just one of those words that I like because I always have trouble pronouncing it.

    Here is a favorite: Omphaloskepsis
    (ohm-fah-lahs-kuh-p-sis)
    which means to meditate while staring at one’s navel.

    Love the story on Atticus Patticus and can definitely relate to cats sleeping in curious positions! Love your blog too.

  • Frivolitea

    I love the word serendipitous. It not only sounds lovely, but has a great, positive meaning as well.

  • Christine Kane

    Okay everyone, I just don’t think I can respond to all of these great comments, except to say that I smiled my way through them – and laughed out loud on occasion. I love that people make up words and have these little secret delights. I especially love the david is going to be using “patticusian” in professional settings!

  • Andrea

    just realized I misspelled circuitous – dang. Love, love, love the blog, btw.

  • joe

    Stochastic is one of my favorite words too…. as an engineer who took “Stochastic Processes” or variations on that course 3 or 4 times, I can tell you that Stochastic seperated the hands-on engineers, who would just say “random” – from the “i want to sound cool” engineers who would use Stochastic.

    Good call on “skank” is well, its got many uses.

  • Andrea

    I love the word cicuitous, because it just sounds so circuitous. When I was given my cat he was a foundling, small enough to require bottlefeeding and to look more like a rodent than a feline. So he has the unfortunate moniker Ratcat, but I’ve called him Ratticus Smatticus for all of his 11 years. I can definitely see smatticusian being used around our house to refer to antisocial, destructive behavior – my beloved boy has his issues 🙂

  • NancyCz

    What a fun meme and great comments to read along as well! I love words; cacaphonous is always a favorite to throw around. But my favorite is a made-up word. Habajabamoo-moo. When I was teaching in Brooklyn I did a week-long activity with my students that involved problem-solving. There were two tribes: the Habajabamoo-moo and the Malabalakajaban. I don’t know how I came up with the names, it was just fun. So you divide the kids and give them a map and the border is all screwy and one side has all the water but the other side has something great (can’t remember what it is) but won’t help them without the water. So the kids met in three groups… the H’s, the M’s and the “Negotiators” and then in three’s (one of each) to figure things out. This story is longer than it needs to be. Basically I had this one student who had recently moved from Nigeria and was absolutely petrified to speak (ROUGH school). He would never say much, maybe “hi” or “yes” and “no”. But that was it. Well, apparently the ficticious name “Habajabamoo-moo” got to him because he wouuld walk in the room and just say it, “Habajabamoo-moooooooooo!” and after that we couldn’t get him to stop talking (mind you, he said other things!).

    And that VERY long story is definitely why “Habajabamoo-moo” is oen of my fav words (made up, of course!)

  • Caren

    When my niece was about 2 years old, we were at my grandmother’s house. She had an old-timey stand-up ashtray on her front porch, the base of which was a large spring. My niece looked at it and asked, “Dat a boi-i-i-i-ing?” in her high, little-girl voice. We realized it was something she’d picked up from cartoons, every time there’s a spring on cartoons, it goes, “Boi-i-i-i-i-ing”. Of course, all springs are now boings, nearly 25 years later.

    A really wonderful book is “Frindle” by Andrew Clements. It’s a story of a boy making up a new word for “pen”, much to the chagrin of his teacher. And Pam, a word IS a word when enough people use it – it doesn’t have to be in a dictionary! I, for one, will be searching for opportunities to use bisidual: of or using two sides; able to be used from either side.

  • DK Raymer

    Great to meet you, Christine. Welcome to the Thursday Thirteen! Fabulous list. I’m looking forward to exploring your blog!
    Happy TTing,
    DK

  • Stacey

    If I had to choose my all-time favorite word it would be deliquesce. I first saw it used in a short story by TC Boyle. A character was scared and could feel “his bowels deliquesce.” Fortunately, I’m not able to use the word very often in *that* context, but I use it as often as I can, like, “Look, we forgot about the lettuce and it’s deliquescing in the bin.”

  • deb

    stellar. i don’t know why, but stellar has always been one of my favorite words.

    and erudite.

    and, of course, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. (ha)

    as for made up words, there is one that remains constant with me and my family.
    bong-bongs
    yep. bong-bongs. what are bong-bongs?
    well, when my dad was about four years old, my great-grandfather took him to the zoo. when he saw the elephants, he said, “look! bong-bongs!” why? because that’s the sound elephants make when they walk!
    that was over sixty years ago and my whole family still shouts out “bong-bongs” when we see elephants.

    all the best!
    deb

  • Susan Helene Gottfried

    Favorite words? They’d be the ones that bubble up before you know you’re looking for them, so you don’t have to stop writing and wait for it.

    Welcome to T13! I hope you grow to love it as much as I do. It’s become the highlight of a really packed, busy week in blogging.

  • pam

    Hi! I love your blog. I have found many needed answers there. I too just heard tornadic for the first time a couple weeks ago and I used it as much as possible for a few days.

    My favorite word is vehicular – not because of what it means, but the way it rolls off the tongue. I have also made up a word – bisidual. We live on a dairy farm and cows usually prefer to be milked from one side or the other. We had one cow that I asked my husband which side I had to go on and he said either so I commented that she was bisidual and he looked at me like I was nuts! I have found many other times to use it since and not in reference to cows. I can’t believe that it isn’t a real word.

    Thanks for your wonderful blog, Pam

  • David

    I promise to use patticusian in my research work at Boston University. It will keep people guessing and make me sound smarter than I really am. Perhaps I can even get people to pick it up and start using it. Patticusian: to sit or lie in an odd position on purpose; to exhibit an odd personality trait on a whim.

    Come on people, we can make Atticus Patticus FAMOUS !

  • Anna

    I like “absquatulate”…Mark Twain uses it a lot. It means to leave in a hurry….but sounds so much fancier than it’s meaning!

  • Caralu

    I can’t say these are my FAVORITE words, but they are SOME of my favorite words….I like LOTS of words:

    ebullient
    exacerbate (great word)
    bourgeoisie
    dismal
    erroneous
    eschatalogical
    obfuscate
    languid
    gargantuan
    megalomaniacal (and maniacal..especially re:laughter)
    oxymoron
    unctuous

    But that’s just today – tomorrow’s list will be different.

  • Christine Kane

    Thanks for all that Stephanie! Wow, your dad sounds like he was quite special. I like gizzly plate especially. Those little family “things” are just great.

    Star – what a great idea! i keep mine in my carry-along songwriting notebook. I love that you have Saskatchewan in there. I can’t remember what town it was – but i remember being fascinated by its name – and you just made me think of how I forgot to write it down!

    yay kathy!

    jeannie – that’s hysterical!

    nina – i laughed out loud at the salad tongs. that’s just great. have you heard the song “my umbrella” by rhianna? It’s such the great hip-hop pop song. (well, at least i think so!)

    michelle – “Nonchalant” might grow up to be a dancer in a strip club though. It’s THAT kind of name. (Though Nonchalant Mitchell just doesn’t have the ring. (Isn’t your last name Mitchell?) Maybe — hmm – Nonchalant Luminescence would do it!)

    Hey Terry! Pusillanimous always made me feel like I was saying something I shouldn’t say! So, it never made it onto the list. (I’m flying into upstate NY – then I fly right out to BlogHer in Chicago. So no NYC this time! Soon though!)

    thanks hagit. I LOVE introducing people to that book!

  • Hagit

    You know what I find fascinating? I just came back to read what others had added, and all the words people picked are wonderful! So does that mean there are some universals which make some words more appealing than others? I love that thought. 🙂 By the way, I just finished reading “Eat, Pray, Love”, which I thought was absolutely FANTASTIC, and I loved the way she dwells on words, too.

  • Terry Starbucker

    Now I’ve posted about words to avoid (http://tshalffull.blogspot.com/2007/01/5-words-to-avoid-in-keeping-glass-half.html), and words I hate (http://tshalffull.blogspot.com/2006/09/do-nice-guys-really-finish-last.html), but for whatever reason I’ve never dived into those I really loved. Thanks for the idea Christine! Here’s a few off tthe top of my head: “insouciant”, “pusillanimous”, and “capricious”. Hope all is well with you. I see you are performing in NY on July 25 – will you pass through NYC?

  • Michelle

    You know, you got me thinking and I thought that I’d already done this list myself but then once I went looking I couldn’t find one. I’ll have to pick this up and do it too! The closest I’ve come is:
    http://scribbit.blogspot.com/2006/11/cooler-than-cool-city-names.html

    I’m partial to nonchalant myself. I could name a child that. 🙂 Thanks for the big fat link too, very kind of you!

  • Nina

    my favorite word is a little pedestrian: umbrella. even as i type i’m luxuriously purring “umbrella” in a way that mrs. robinson might while seducing an undergrad…

    but, what i really want to write about are salad tongs. a few years ago we had some connections to a governor who gave us a finely crafted pair of salad tongs for our engagement. now whenever we have a dinner party we whip out our fancy Gubernatorial Salad Tongs, tell their story, and delight in their name.

    great post, great blog, great songs… great!

  • Jeannie

    One of my favorites is to quickly say the name of the store “Hobby Lobby” repeatedly! If we drive by it, and I get started, I can make my husband crazy for miles!

  • Kathy

    ok – you’ve inspired me once again, this time with the Thursday Thirteens. What a great website and concept!! Here’s our first one! http://ghentfever.blogspot.com/ Check it out!

  • Star

    Anal retentive that I am, I have my favorites saved in an Excel file so I can add new ones when I come across them (and I’ve added resplendent and cantankerous now).

    A few of mine:
    burble
    clickety-clack
    diaphanous
    folderol
    galumph
    luminescent
    windowsill
    (and my favorite province: Saskatchewan)

  • Stephanie

    I love words, too! A trait definitely inherited from my father. He read incessantly, and always had a dictionary by his side to look up any words (though they were few) of which he might not know the definition.

    One day he walked in the door of my house and said proudly, “I feel irascible today!” Of course, he was carrying his dictionary so that when I asked what that word meant he could open it up and show me. (Now you can look it up, too, and I hope it makes you chuckle!)

    When I was small, my dad was always the “spelling test” parent. I remember one time particularly when I had the word “beautiful” on my list. I just could not get it right, and when I asked my dad how to spell it, he said, “Look it up!” How was I supposed to look it up if I couldn’t spell it???

    Thank you for conjuring up those memories for me today. My dad has been gone almost ten years, and I still miss his scratchy face, his slow, careful speech, and his clever wit.

    I’ll add a few favorite words for your consideration:

    Wafting
    Titillating
    Sensuous

    And then there are the words that kids make up… When my kids were small, we used those square, colorful Tupperware plates for their lunch. We put them in the microwave (although they were not considered “microwave-safe”), and one of them became slightly dilapidated from overheating. This made it have a fun squiggly design on the top. One day when I was making lunch, my oldest (about four at the time) asked if he could have his lunch on the “gizzly plate.” From that day on, all of my kids wanted their lunch on that silly plate, and today (20 years later), we still have it, and it is still referred to as the “gizzly plate.”

  • Christine Kane

    hey deb! yea – i can see why you don’t like the word “stochastic” after that. for an artist type – words like that are fascinating!

  • Christine Kane

    hi hagit – great words – and quite an exquisite post in your link. i love it. “bedazzled” is a good one indeed!

    thanks kathy! what a great exercise you describe here. i love it. (and i, too, made up lots of little rhymes and limericks for my siblings!)

    jer – it’s just one episode of west wing – where a foreign translator doesn’t know the word “pride” – but then turns to his partner and says the word “onomonopoetic.” it’s funny.

    thanks joy. the word “syllabic” is a good one. i think i just like words that end in “ic.”

    kmg – it was a toss-up between “obsequious” and “ubiquitous.” i’m glad you added it!

  • Deb

    I love words that tickle the ear. I listed a few in my Jan. 27th post. But I forgot at the time about palindromes. I once read a palindrome that was 52 words long.

    But I can’t believe you brought up stochastic processes. I learned to really really dislike that word when my husband was in engineering graduate school. Seriously, he talked about stochastic processes in his sleep and I was the one beginning to wonder what possessed me to marry him. Sleep deprivation will do that to you.

    Loved the list otherwise.

  • KMG

    Fun topic 🙂 I love the word “ubiquitous.”

  • Joy

    my favorite phrase of yours in this delightful post is “syllabic delicacy.”

  • jer

    haven’t ever watched west wing, no. i just remember as a kid hearing what that word meant and then trying to think up sounds that are spelled like they sound. i specifically remember deciding that the sound a cricket makes is “criii-CKET”, which really isn’t true at all, but it sure was fun to say.

  • Kathy

    Words are awesome – kind of like modern art. You bring yourself to them and they are much more meaningful. As a pisces, words float my creativity boat. You can like the sound of a new word and not even know it’s meaning – making up your own meaning for it as I often do, rolling it around on your tongue as you say. Or make up new words as you and your commenters have demonstrated in the post – that sound cool and have special meaning for you. Putting them together in a song or a poem is just the bees knees. I used to make up nonsense rhyming poems to amuse my sisters from as far back as I can remember, changing or making up words to make it work. Then at IBM, we often do skits – changing the words to familiar tunes to make others laugh. Some of my favorites that haven’t been mentioned yet (real and made up!) — ruminate, hoopdeedoo, skeedaddle, omniscient, … and so many many more! On one retreat I went on, we had a wonderful writer present. As the rest of us were taking notes or drawing pictures in our journals or simply listening during sharing sessions, she wrote down words that struck her. At the end of the retreat, she read them to us – slowly – allowing time in between each word for us to bring our own stuff to the word – and it was amazingly powerful – bringing many to tears as they opened something up inside us. I often look back at that entry in my journal with all Eileen’s words to calm myself, infuse a little creative inspiration. And every time I read the same words – different images happen for me, but always powerful and poignant.

  • Hagit

    Ah, words! I love words and I have many favorites. I love smorgasbord, and mind-boggling, flabbergasted, bedazzled, oomph, doozy, they all sound so magical to me! And there are many more. But I wanted to share a really cool poem with you. There are many of these around the Internet, but I think this one is just the best:
    http://www.emaze.co.il/mywordz/pronounciation.htm

  • Christine Kane

    thanks all!

    hi mags, i love the clatter=thunk thing. when i was a kid, i always thought our door bell made the sound “Doe-noo!” And i just LOVED to hear it. It meant visitors! I’m glad you like the DVD. And “nooze” is a great word. (and a very cute kitty.)

    clever dude – i would’ve been one of the people in the class who very much liked that sentence! (i pondered the idea of putting all of these words in a sentence, but gave up.)

    jer – that’s my husband’s favorite word! (there’s a very funny west wing with the word “onomatopoeia” in it. don’t know if you’ve ever watched that show.)

  • Jer

    I was always a fan of “Onomatopoeia”.

    And even though I don’t like to actually be logy, I like the word “logy”. It just sounds like what it means.

  • Clever Dude

    In high school, our English teacher gave us some advanced words that we had to work into a sentence. I figured I would get bonus points for fitting 3 into a sentence: miasma, protuberance and emanate. However, I got into trouble for fitting my friend into the sentence (in a bad way):

    “There was an awful miasma emanating from Shawn’s protuberance.”

    She didn’t quite like that one, but the class did 🙂

  • Mags

    Clatter-thunk! Not so much a word that I love, but the very cool sound of post coming through my door. And yesterday’s included your DVD! Thank you – for sending it to me, and for an amazing evening spent watching and listening to your phenomenal talent. I also loved your stories in between songs 🙂

    Great words on today’s post, especially Patticusian 😉 Animals seem to result in a whole new vocab! One of ours is “nooze” (verb), a combination of our cat’s name (Nut, pronounced with a long ‘u’ i.e. Noot – she’s named after the Egyptian goddess of the sky, although the spelling does reflect her personality!) and the way she oozes towards the heater in winter. There’s a pic of her doing that on our blog if you’d like a visual 🙂 She’s in quarantine at the moment, but only has 2 months left to go!

  • MommyBa

    Anemone reminds me so much of Finding Nemo 🙂 *giggles*

    Welcome to Thursday Thirteen! See ya around 🙂

    Happy Thursday!

  • Two Happiest Moms

    Interesting words you have here. Some are not easy to spell. Hahaha…

    Great 1st WW!

    Mine is ready, too…

  • Gattina

    You obviously want me to break my tongue ! English is not my main language !
    If you love cats, just have a look on my cat blog “my cats & funny stories” and our cat group Cats on Tuesday, where people write once a week about their cats.

  • Natalie

    Fun list! I love words, how they sound, what they mean, finding ways to insert them into conversation…

    Happy TT! 🙂