WordPress reminded me that I’ve been blogging for ten years this week. I don’t know where the time has gone. It’s been a tumultous decade. In that time I have made some wonderful blogging friends, some of whom have been around since early in my blogging career, and who I’m still in contact with, including … More Ten years of blogging – and a big thank you to my readers
Although I can’t spill too many beans just now, as it were, I can tell you that 2020 is going to be a bumper year for me. My book Living On Shaky Ground was reissued in new and updated form a few weeks back. This week there’s been another new issue. Back in 2018 I … More A bit of publishing news
This week’s obscure English word – well, in this case, a term – is lucubration. It means something produced as a product of great effort and study. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2020
I pay zero attention to rubbish emails these days. Mostly it goes automatically into a spam folder which is auto-emptied without my even looking. Time is too short to waste on it. The other day, though, just for amusement, I dug into my spam folder. Here’s what I found: Somebody called ‘Angela’ wants to be … More Nine things I found in my junk email folder
This week’s obscure English word – well, in this case, a term – is nikehedonia. It refers to the feeling someone gets when they know they are about to succeed, perhaps in winning a game. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2020
What worries me about the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak isn’t so much the virus itself. It’s the economic effects of the way people – and societies – have been reacting to it since the outbreak began. Because of the way western economics has gone in the past forty-odd years, what economists call a ‘shock’ can have … More The coronavirus outbreak – the economic impact
This week’s obscure English word is steatopygous. It means having a large bottom. I’m not sure what use such a word actually has, but I guess if anybody feels they MUST describe their own backside dimensions at all, ‘steatopygous’ sounds much more sophisticated than possible alternatives. Probably. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in … More The obscure word of the week is steatopygous
