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{Re}wind
Back in the day when video cassettes were how you saw the latest movies or binge-watched television, there was nothing worse than getting a movie that hadn’t been rewound. The video stores started posting signs on…
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{Re}bid
When I saw this word in a list tonight, I was reminded about the time we went to good old fashioned country auction with my dad. There was a pretty set of water glasses that I wanted. They weren’t anything crystal or…
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{Re}pose
In which I do not mean at heavenly rest, rest after exertion, harmony of color, or the noun version of the word in Merriam-Webster. The closest meaning is the verb form: poise. Or in this case to literally pose again.…
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{Re}time
I’m always a little late to this springing forward or falling back exercise, especially when it comes to the clock in my car. I cannot always remember how to do it. As a matter of fact, the last time I changed the time…
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{Re}st
Dormancy. I recently purchased some plants from an online nursery. When they arrived the insert was clear. These plants are NOT dead, they are dormant. Basically, once you plant them they’ll come alive again. And, they…
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{Re}lish, post-game
Well … We got the hot dog with grilled onions. We went out to buy new jackets because it was supposed to be cooler. We still weren’t prepared for northeasterly, 8 mph winds and the 49 degree temperature. The wind whips…
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{Re}lish, pre-game
I’ve been waiting patiently to use this word. For years, Keck and I have tried to catch a baseball game in all the cities where baseball is played. We went to the old Yankee Stadium in New York, picked up a game in San…
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{Re}trench
Jane Austen’s book, Persuasion, begins with the retrenching of the Elliott clan. Sir Walter Elliott’s vanity and overindulgence have lead the family to near poverty. In order to preserve the family name and societal…
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{Re}cipe
The word recipe originally was receipt and mostly used to refer to a prescription or medicine. For medicine, the ingredients needed to be precise. It needed to be accurate. It need to be done again and again. Yet, when…