Word of the Day

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FRIDAY, MAY 8

Chatelaine

[SHAD-ə-leyn]Part of speech: noun

Origin: french, mid-19th century

• A woman in charge of a large house.
• A set of short chains attached to a woman's belt, used for carrying keys or other items.

Examples of Chatelaine in a sentence

• As chatelaine of the house, she was responsible for making sure all the gardening was done on schedule.
• I found an antique chatelaine and have been wearing it as a piece of jewelry.

About Chatelaine

Chatelaine can describe either the housekeeper of a large home, or the dangle of useful objects carried around her waist. It comes from the French “châtelaine,” which is the feminine of châtelain. This word can be traced back to the Latin “castellanus,” which basically means keeper of the castle.

Did you Know?

Isn’t it a pain to dig through your bag for your keys? What if you don’t have pockets? Bring back the chatelaine. This is a set of chains worn around the waist, used for carrying keys, sewing items, watches — anything a good housekeeper might need throughout the day. Some were as decorative as a piece of jewelry, but they were all useful.

Archives -2015

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I'm still not used to a year that starts with 20 and yet, I'm going to take you back to 2015 in our Archives.  It sounds like Star Trek star dates to me.

This is what was happening here on Section VII on May 7-8 of 2015.

12:15 am: alynwa The Great Episode Challenge for May 2015 - 9 comments07:21 am: glennagirl Impromptu Challenge... - 1 comment09:52 am: alynwa Robert Vaughn on Law & Order: SVU - 7 comments12:44 pm: mrua7 An impromptu post to an impromptu prompt. - 12 comments05:17 pm: carabele 5/7/15 Impromptu Challenge: WHAT ARE THE ODDS? - 12 comments05:33 pm: glennagirl Look Away - Impromptu Challenge - 12 comments10:30 pm: jantojones Untitled Double Drabble for the Impromptu Challenge May 7th - 11 comments

08:54 am: glennagirl The Reading Room - Through Closed Windows by Monker - 2 comments

May Song Story Artist: Melissa Etheridge!

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Your song choices are "You Can Sleep While I Drive" and "Heroes and Friends."  Click on the links for the lyrics or watch the videos below.  Posting starts on Thursday May 21st.

Happy writing!

Some People - April Song Story

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The prompt is What You See Is What You Get by the Dramatics.  These lines got my attention.

Some people are made of plastic

And you know some people are made of wood

Some people have hearts of stone

Some people are up to no good

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Napoleon Solo knew what he was doing, in spite of his partner’s obvious objections… his repeated obvious objections.

Of course Angelique Le Chien was a villainess of extraordinary proportions.  Thinking that made him chuckle to himself, the pun was not intended.  She wasn’t fooling him, or controlling him or manipulating him.  No, he was in charge of … 

“Damn it.” He hadn’t meant to say it aloud.  Illya turned his head slightly, drawled out with his manufactured accent the words he knew would annoy Napoleon.

“Have you reconsidered?”

“No.’ That was too abrupt.

“No Illya, I’m going through with it.  We have history, and every once in a while she even tells the truth.  We need to know for certain what’s going on with this formula, and it’s, uhh…”

Illya looked straight ahead once more, his eyes set on the building where the formula in question and the woman named Angelique, were both located.

“Foolhardy, dangerous, likely to lead to something undesirable? Is that what you were going to say?”  He knew full well that it wasn’t, but sometimes the Russian found it impossible to not editorialize.

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I really can't believe I wrote another story.

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I blame it on the Great Quarantine of 2020. No quarantine guarantee of another one soon. The story can be found here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24076009