Christa Allan

CONTEST! Rename Glacier National Park. 

The Oxford Word Challenge

Plurals

Is it media or mediums? Is it tomatoes or tomatos or tomato’s?
Find the correct plural form for the following words (we’ve used the Concise Oxford Dictionary as a reference.
Example: Ox
Answer:Oxen

1. Louse.
2. Mother-in-law.
3. Index.
4. Teaspoonful.
5. Crisis.
6. Phenomenon.
7. Court martial.
8. Incognito.
9. Opus.
10. Manservant.
11. Grant-in-aid.
12. Armful.
13. Addendum.
14. Stigma.

The answers are in the first comment.

“You were just a little girl in a flannel night gown. And you were shoveling snow from the walk in front of our house. And I was the snow; I was the snow. And everywhere it landed and everywhere it covered, you scoop me up with a big red shovel. You scoop me up.”
Luke Wilson [...]

“God has a right to interrupt your life.”
from Experiencing God by Henry T. Blackaby and Claude V. King

Michael & Sarah    Lesley       Emma          Erin & Andrae         Bailey          Shannon

   John

“The Lanyard” by Billy Collins (former poet laureate of the United States)
 
The other day as I was ricocheting slowly
off the pale blue walls of this room,
bouncing from typewriter to piano,
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,
I found myself in the L section of the dictionary
where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.
 
No cookie [...]

Andrae & Erin on Graduation Day!

Today, instead of blogging, I am looking for my precious daughter’s little body to go bouncing across stage. Erin Cathryn is being awarded a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Political Science and minor in Psychology from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University [...]

  1.   Your tagline is “Advice and Encouragement from America’s Clutter Coach.” I’ m so glad this interview is electronic so you can’t see my desk (which looks like Office Depot threw up on it )or the floor closet in my bedroom. How and when did you decide to rid the world of clutter? The [...]

Check out the line-up of upcoming authors on my blog. Click on the Author Interview page on the right.
Stop by tomorrow to visit author Cyndy Salzmann.

A malapropism is the mistaken use of one word for another. It is named after Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Sheridan’s play The Rivals (1775), who was fond of using malapropos (i.e. inappropriate) statements like “Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory” (meaning ‘obliterate’) or “My affluence over my niece [...]

Well, I’ve been tagged, and I didn’t even know I was playing chase. Missy (who is now officially punished and must go to her room), is seeking retribution on eight people because she’d been tagged, and she has committed me to the following:
1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are [...]

If you haven’t  heard by now the owners of Custom Cleaners in Washington,  Jin Nam Chung and Ki Chung, are being sued by Judge Roy Pearson .
He claims they lost a pair of his pants. A week later the pants were found, so the couple refused to pay the $1,000 he was asking for the [...]

I learned about Shane Claiborne and The Simple Way fifteen minutes ago after cruising my friend Lisa Samson’s blog post about him. Wow and ouch.
 
Believe in Jesus. (?) 
                  Believe Jesus. (?)
 
Sometimes the difference of one word can make all the difference. Jesus made waves. Tsunami proportions.
Is my activity even creating ripples?
Shane Claiborne interview: [...]

Finally.
An addiction I can keep. There’s now some evidence that coffee can ward off Type 2 diabetes and help to protect against colon, rectal, and liver cancers.
Granted, this information was based on only 400 studies with the results bandied about at an Experimental Biology 2007 meeting in Washington, D.C. Not exactly the kind of [...]

Fiction Fundamentals 
It’s party time at this new site.  Be prepared! You’ll be entertained for a long, long time. Door prizes and party hats!
 Enjoy…see you there.