Posts by Pat:
Playing with words…
There’s too much going on! Too much stress! It’s time to play!
And since I was an English teacher in a previous lifetime, I choose to play with WORDS. And today I choose “anagrams”.
What’s an anagram? It’s a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters in another word or phrase. It’s important to note that the word or phrases that an anagram creates must be actual words or phrases, otherwise it is just gibberish.
(Someone who is good at anagrams must be “deadly” at Scrabble!)
I hope you enjoy this word play as much as I do!
SNOOZE ALARMS: rearrange letters to ALAS! NO MORE Z’S
THE EARTHQUAKES: rearrange letters to THAT QUEER SHAKE
ANIMOSITY: rearrange letters to IS NO AMITY
PRESBYTERIAN: rearrange letters to: BEST IN PRAYER
ASTRONOMER: rearrange letters to : MOON STARER
DORMITORY: rearrange letters to: DIRTY ROOM
ELEVEN PLUS TWO: rearrange letters to: TWELVE PLUS ONE
THE EYES: rearrange letters to: THEY SEE
DESPERATION: rearrange letters to A ROPE ENDS IT
SOME ARE QUITE A CHALLENGE!
Did you find at least one of these anagrams to be new to you?
And if anagrams aren’t your thing…
you can check out some of my posts on puns!
Average or Awesome?
“Average” wasn’t pitched to us in our high school guidance counselor’s office. Do you remember feeling and believing that you could do absolutely anything you set your mind to do? Oh, the places we’d go! We know that “average” in our culture often has a negative connotation. Do we perhaps keep striving to do more […]
What’s life to you?
If you were given a chance to choose your favorite life metaphor, what would it be? Do you agree with Forrest Gump’s mother that life is “a box of chocolates” because “you never know what you’re going to get”? Or do you prefer the phrase from the 1930’s tune that “life is just a bowl […]
Feeling limited?
Blind Paralympian Verity Smith is amazing! She was told at the age of eight that due to a rare genetic disorder, she would soon lose her sight. Having competed on horseback since she was five, her response was unexpected. “It’s okay, my horse can see for me.” In the years since losing her sight, Verity […]
If you were the fifth monk?
One of my favorite zen stories is ‘The Four Monks”… Four monks decided to meditate silently for two weeks. They lit a candle and began. By nightfall on the first day, the candle went out. The first monk said: “Oh, no! The candle is out.” The second monk said: “We’re not supposed to talk!” The […]
Has it been a while?
These last 6 months or so have left many of us discombobulated!* And I’m sure that I’m not the only one for whom “it’s been a while!” *isn’t this a funny word for being upset or confused? It’s been a while… since I cleaned out my truck and got the outside washed, but I did […]
English is a crazy language!
After all, there is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. And English muffins weren’t invented in England nor French fries in France. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea […]
Is September YOUR new January?
From sending kids back to school, to strategic fiscal planning at work, this is a time of year normally marked by transitions and the anticipation of fresh starts. However, this year is completely different. But with change comes the opportunity to make a new start, to do things differently. With September now upon us, it […]
Don’t wait!
Worry takes a lot of effort and accomplishes nothing of value. And at the same time, due to the time-horizon of the pandemic, it’s also tempting for us to simply wait. To wait for things to get back to normal. But all the time we’re spending waiting (for a normal that is unlikely to be […]
Avoiding ‘toxic positivity’
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don’t worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do. By Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture No one could have anticipated COVID-19 […]