U for Undressed

This was on Nadia's (Irfan's mother) FB:

Irfan asked me this morning, "Ma, how do we eat rake and sun?" I replied, "You can't eat those?" He replied back, "Caaaaaaan. Replace the 'r' with 'c' and the 's' with 'b' so you get cake and bun. Can eat wot?"

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Another Award my way!

My dear friend Gary, owner and co-writer (sometimes Penny, his Jack Russell and modest internet star co-writes) of the blog klahanie, has bestowed me this classic Award:

If you have not visited Gary, go here and be mesmerized by his wonderful choice of words when he articulates a subject of his choice, like hanging clothes down side up. My English (both English English and Canadian English) has improved tremendously (that's what I like to think anyway) since frequenting his blog.  So go, go now. (But be sure to come back, for I'm not done yet, eh).

Thank you, my friend, I'm truly honored.

The originator of the Award is Count Sneaky who blogs here.  Just to give you a glimpse of what he writes, here's an example:  "Don't look so far ahead, the world is right under your feet".  Now I keep telling myself that all the time.

It is my distinct pleasure to pass this Award to....Gary's sister Joylene Nowell Butler. She's taking a moment at a time on Cluculz Lake.  She's the author of the thriller Dead Witness.

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Today is the scheduled release date for Ann Carbine Best's memoir In The Mirror.  Available from Amazon.

Congratulations Ann!

Here's a preview:

This moving, inspiring, and candid memoir, In the Mirror, A Memoir of Shattered Secrets, is a simply told yet eloquent story of a woman whose mortal journey takes her through a series of life-shattering crises, each of which could break any one of us. An idealist and a dreamer, shaken by something amiss in her marriage, she turns to a brief flirtation with another man but quickly retreats, remaining faithful to her gay husband who is already acting out his choices with others. Then, the marriage ends and the silent heartbreak and ordeals continue as this mother of four struggles to provide for her children; a mother endowed with a "stiff upper lip" and a strong faith in herself and God that give her the ability to endure and prevail. Her mirror of well-intended choices becomes a cautionary tale about how bad choices shatter, crack and distort. . . mirrors and lives. It may not have been the story Ann Best had hoped to write, but it is the actual story of how she coped--and triumphed--on this fallen world we call Earth.


~Richard H. Cracroft, Nan Osmond Grass Professor in English and Emeritus at Brigham Young University; Author/editor of 13 books and over 250 articles on American literature; Chair of BYU's English Department and Dean of the College of Humanities.

On with the Alphabet Challenge.  Since you have all those blogs to visit, and Ann's memoir to read, I shall be brief:

U FOR UNDRESSED

When I buy chicken they are normally dressed.

Here is a chicken that is undressed.

Image from Wikipedia

My original intention was to write about Ursula Undress, in keeping with my 'Double O Seven' and 'Tongkat Ali' themes, but on second thought people would be less offended by the chicken story, right People?