Category: etymology and linguistics

• Finding your PRIDE

  

  Exclusion is a huge part of our culture, as United States citizens. The irony is a country founded on the self-evident truth that all are created equal in reality rarely treats people with any sort of equality.

  Lorna Festa

  June 24, 2022

  anxiety, culture, equality, etymology and linguistics, family, healing trauma, human rights, lgbtq+, mental health, pride, queer studies, streaming reviews, Uncategorized

  girls rock camp, lgbtq+, love is love, nerd war stories, streaming, when we were bullies

• COUSINS (Part 1 of many)

  

  Your cousins are your brood, your pack. If you’re lucky like me, you’ve got two packs – mom’s siblings’ kids and dad’s siblings’ kids.

  Lorna Festa

  June 6, 2022

  90s culture, culture, etymology and linguistics, family, generation gap, Psychology

  Birth order, children traders, cousins, family ties, generation gap

• Wax poetic exquisite corpse: What’s it all about?

  

  For some reason, I get a mental image of a Madame Tussaud’s wax figure when I try to invision “wax poetic exquisite corpse” altogether. And I am okay with that.

  Lorna Festa

  May 20, 2022

  culture, etymology and linguistics

  art, culture, writing