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Day 4672: New words

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Ann Koplow

I love new words, so I enjoyed asking this question last night on Learn a New Word Day.

Whenever somebody asks a question like Milton’s, my new words are “Everything counts.”

Because we live in a Kakistocracy where politicians are pettifogging and breaking laws about emoluments, I’ll be protesting tomorrow at a No Kings demonstration in Boston. I’ll be making new words out of this sign:

Can you guess what words will be on my sign tomorrow?

When I do the New York Time’s Spelling Bee puzzle …

… I often discover new words. For some reason, today’s pangram (a word that uses all the letters) was very easy for me to see.

Do we need any new words to describe my other images for today?

The words of my protest song will be new to tomorrow’s demonstrators and I hope I get a chance to sing it.

Here’s what I find when I search for “new words” on YouTube:

Thanks to John Koenig, I can use the new word zielschmerz, which I’ve been experiencing.

I’m looking forward to new words in the comments section, below.

Thanks to all who are here for these new words, including YOU!

Categories: life in the USA, original song, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: “You Don’t Scare Me”, cats, chicken and stuffing, John Koenig, No Kings protests on October 18, October 17 2025, The Daily Bitch Calendar, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, Twitter and Bluesky | 6 Comments

Day 3622: Focus

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Ann Koplow

I woke up wondering what the focus of today’s blog post might be and then I thought, why not focus on focus?

These days, I have many centers of interest and activity (including group therapy for patients and providers, parenting, friendships, home repair, self-care, social media, writing, the news, word games, my original songs, travel, and cats), which makes it difficult to focus.

Now, I’m going to focus on quotes about focus.

That’s my cue to focus on my images for today.

Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “focus”:

Now I’m going to turn the focus to you: what are your thought and feelings about focus?

Many people recommend that we focus on gratitude, so thanks to all who help me focus every day, including YOU!

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism, quotes | Tags: BrainyQuote, chicken and stuffing, Christina Bengtsson, gratitude, group therapy, letting go of fear, National Days December 1 2022, self-care, The Art of Focus, The Daily Bitch Calendar | 7 Comments

Day 3622: Focus

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Ann Koplow

I woke up wondering what the focus of today’s blog post might be and then I thought, why not focus on focus?

Now, I’m going to focus on quotes about focus.

That’s my cue to focus on my images for today.

Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “focus”:

Now I’m going to turn the focus to you: what are your thought and feelings about focus?

Many people recommend that we focus on gratitude, so thanks to all who help me focus every day, including YOU!

Categories: personal growth, photojournalism, quotes | Tags: “The Art of Focus — a crucial ability”, BrainyQuote, chicken and stuffing, Christina Bengtsson, gratitude, group therapy, letting go of fear, National Days December 1 2022, self-care, The Daily Bitch Calendar | 3 Comments

Day 3510: PLEASE NO LECTURES

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Ann Koplow

PLEASE NO LECTURES about how there should be a comma between “PLEASE” and “NO” in today’s title and on the button I made for a client and for myself.

PLEASE NO LECTURES about all capital letters, also.

PLEASE NO LECTURES about my hesitancy to respond to what I experience as lectures on Twitter with a photo of my PLEASE NO LECTURES button. PLEASE NO LECTURES about my similar hesitancy to call out mansplaining.

PLEASE NO LECTURES. My harsh inner critic gives me way too many lectures already. I’m not going to give a lecture about the harsh inner critic because I suspect you probably know about it.

PLEASE NO LECTURES about my images for today.