adjective:
1. Having no equal; peerless.
2. Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person.
3. A flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar.
Nonpareil comes from Old French, from non, “not” + pareil, “equal,” from (assumed) Vulgar Latin pariculus, diminutive of Latin par, “equal.”
I had to add this word. I just love a [...]
Man sitting by window, broken leg, bored…remind you of anything? Only my all-time favorite movie, Rear Window. Right? (Just say yes, even if you don’t know this movie because that will break my heart.) Wrong. It’s my life. Well, my husband’s life. Now that his leg is broken, [...]
I was shocked to see this news online when I read a local club was hosting a tribute to Paul Delay. A tribute? He died?
A Portland, Oregonian, Delay was 55, and days before his death, he was diagnosed with leukemia. What a loss. I remember dancing up a storm [...]
I’ve had a light bulb moment. My child is Cher, reincarnated. Can you reincarnate someone who is still alive? No? Okay, she’s Diana Ross. Still alive? Well-preserved, at least. Does Kid sing? Well, not more than any other “plain kid,” as she’d say.
What she does that [...]
OK, first I must say, TIVO is my friend. I could go on and on about it, but won’t. Trust me, it’s great. Probably like a lot of other techie things that I don’t comprehend, you could not tell me what was SO GREAT about it until it moved in and took [...]
So, while my hubbie is laid up in bed, I am surfing and saw that Paris Hilton is going to JAIL. For real. 45 days and nights for violating probation and a bunch of other stuff. It all stemmed from her DUI last fall which resulted in probation and a suspended license. [...]
It started out as an ordinary day. My spouse rode off on his motorcycle for work, heading for the ferry. Kid and I worked on breakfast. About an hour later, my spouse calls. I am not to worry, he says, but he is being driven to the hospital after being in [...]
