Photo Of The Week 9-20-2026
Quote For The Day 9-20-2026
“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise
Quote For The Day 9-19-2026
“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved.”
― C. JoyBell C.
Quote For The Day 9-18-2026
“If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.”
Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Grammar Goof 9-17-2026
Quote For The Day 9-17-2026
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Word Of The Week 9-9-2026
mirific
noun
Definition
A coward; a wretch; someone lacking courage.
Origin
niddering, alteration of nidering, alteration of Middle English nithing
Merriam Webster.com
Word Of The Week 9-16-2026
mirific
adj
Definition
marvelous or working wonders
Example
“In as blasé a tone as I could manage in such mirific circumstances, I murmured, ‘Ma’am, if you would care to glance out of the window—you will see a flying saucer.'”
Origin
The word mirific comes from Middle French “mirifique”, which in turn derives from Latin “mirificus”, combining mirus (meaning “wonderful”) and -ficus (meaning “making” or “producing
The term has been in use in English since the Middle English period, with the earliest recorded usage around 1490 in a translation by William Caxton (Oxford English Dictionary)
Merriam Webster Dictionary
Quote For The Day 9-16-2026
“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise


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