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Novel Words List

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My Novel Words List includes words that are unfamiliar, look funny on the page, and seem strange the first time you hear them. How’s your vocabulary? The first time I played Scrabble on my old keyboard Kindle, the built-in opponent, AI, played a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: Kindle Keyboard, Kindle PaperWhite, odd words, Scrabble

Top Ten Reasons to Meet in Person for Games and Puzzles

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1. You laugh together (Taboo, Balderdash, Cranium, Mad Libs). … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coping with Life Tagged With: Acquire, Anaconda, At Wits End, Balderdash, Blokus, Chess, Cranium, Dominoes, Dutch Blitz, Hearts, Mad Libs, Monopoly, Nertz, Personal Preference, Probe, Quiddler, Risk, Scrabble, Taboo, The Farming Game, Trivial Pursuit, Upwords, Whist, Yahtzee

Still Alice, by Lisa Genova

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Still Alice*, by Lisa Genova, is a novel in which a psychology professor struggles with Alzheimer’s Disease. Her poignant and gripping story reawakened for me the real life drama between my pioneer-woman grandmother, Elsa, who lost her memory, and my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Alzheimer's Disease, Carnation Milk, crochet, croquet, Dominoes, Eisenhower, Grosenbach, Keene, Lisa Genova, Model A Ford, Nampa, resurrection, Scrabble, Still Alice

Hi, Reader. Glad you're here. I'm Norma Nill, a psych nurse-systems analyst-turned-writer as well as a master of typos. I live with my husband in the Pacific Northwest (USA) and enjoy connecting with people from all over the world, in person and online. Learn More

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