Merry Christmas my Friends & Digital Neighbors! I hope your celebrations over the weekend were enjoyable and drama free. I had a great visit with my sister and her family yesterday and it was a wonderfully small and enjoyable Christmas! The larger family gatherings are good too, but up the ante for potential drama when adding more to the mix.
I thought I would finish out the year with a return to one of my favorite posting sessions: The Little Book of Lost Words: collywobbles, snollygosters, and 86 other surprisingly useful terms worth resurrecting. - Joe Gillard. I hope you enjoy the words and commentary, if not just ignore my blatterooning. 😊
Aprosexia - Noun ap-ruh-sehx-ee-uh 19th Century English - A complete inability to focus of concentrate due to a distracted, wandering mind.
Little Joey's aporsexia prevented him from learning much in class and earned him a seat by the teacher most of the year.
I guess that was a term before ADHD and its ilk became more common. I was a ...