Rosina W.
Subscriber since: April 2012
Location:
San Francisco Bay Area,
CA
About Me
Here goes (please pardon the space-saving bullets):
* I live halfway between San Francisco and the Wine Country of Sonoma and Napa.
* Food and wine writer, educator, consultant, etc. for 25+ years.
* Founded the "Drink Wine With Dinner™" holiday (August 15th, for Julia Child's birthday). You can contact me at Rosina@RosinaWilson.com to join the fun!
* Just released the first eBook in my "Drink Wine With Dinner™" series. (It's free: visit DrinkWineWithDinner.com and fill in the "Sign Up Now" box.)
* Certified wine judge. (And some folks think I'm, um, *certifiable* ;)
* Cookbook author: Seafood, Pasta and Noodles ~ The New Classics (Ten Speed Press).
* Co-founder and founding editor of Wine X Magazine.
Hobbies, likes, etc.: Food & cooking, wine, nature (astronomy, birding, snorkeling, gentle hikes), photography/videography, writing/blogging, teaching, gardening, cats. (My sweet little shelter kitty, Calicocoa, was trained by her foster mom to use a *people toilet*!)
* I live halfway between San Francisco and the Wine Country of Sonoma and Napa.
* Food and wine writer, educator, consultant, etc. for 25+ years.
* Founded the "Drink Wine With Dinner™" holiday (August 15th, for Julia Child's birthday). You can contact me at Rosina@RosinaWilson.com to join the fun!
* Just released the first eBook in my "Drink Wine With Dinner™" series. (It's free: visit DrinkWineWithDinner.com and fill in the "Sign Up Now" box.)
* Certified wine judge. (And some folks think I'm, um, *certifiable* ;)
* Cookbook author: Seafood, Pasta and Noodles ~ The New Classics (Ten Speed Press).
* Co-founder and founding editor of Wine X Magazine.
Hobbies, likes, etc.: Food & cooking, wine, nature (astronomy, birding, snorkeling, gentle hikes), photography/videography, writing/blogging, teaching, gardening, cats. (My sweet little shelter kitty, Calicocoa, was trained by her foster mom to use a *people toilet*!)
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Favorite Word:
chatoyantBeing such an avid cat lover, I find it delightful that the shimmery optical effects (chatoyance) in wood grain, tigereye cabochons, etc., would be named for the glimmer of feline eyes!
Also: "boustrophedon." Sounds like it should relate to boisterous, rambunctious, rumbustious, etc., instead of... what it *does* mean. (Great definition in VT. Think mowing the lawn...)
Least Favorite Word:
bombilationFor now, my LFW is "bombilation," the streak-breaker on my most recent Spelling Bee run.
I expect that "my least favorite word" will keep changing, one streak-breaker at a time...
(July 18 ~ *Dang!* New "LFW" ~ [circinate] has *only one* "n"...
Favorite Quote:
"“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”"
- The late, great, inimitable Julia Child (1912-2004)
Favorite Topics:
Blogs:
Getting "Gatsby": The Language Behind the Novel
May 10, 2013
- 1 Comment
Obsolete Words Worth Reviving?
March 21, 2013
Dictionaries:
A Taxing Day for Dictionaries
April 15, 2013
A Worldly Tour of the Oxford English Dictionary
January 23, 2013
- 3 Comments
Fun:
How "Baloney" Got Phony
May 3, 2013
- 2 Comments
How to write:
Language arts:
A Wicked Worksheet of the Week
May 15, 2013
Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013
- 1 Comment
Language:
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4 Comments
Word Origins:
Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013
March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013
Reading:
Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
March 7, 2013
- 2 Comments
Writing Packed with Life
February 4, 2013
- 5 Comments
Spelling:
Scripps National Spelling Bee Adds Vocabulary Questions
April 11, 2013
- 3 Comments
Rosanne Cash Knows Her "Ischium" at a Literary Spelling Bee
November 20, 2012
- 1 Comment
Teachers:
Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013
- 1 Comment
Schools Are More Than a Test
January 24, 2013
- 7 Comments
Teaching:
A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013
Always Never Something: Eliminating Five Overused Words
April 29, 2013
- 14 Comments
Usage:
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4 Comments
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
Vocabulary:
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
Silicon Valley's Favorite Word: "Delight"
May 14, 2013
Visual Thesaurus:
Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012
- 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
Words:
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4 Comments
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
Writers:
Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
May 7, 2013
- 2 Comments
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