Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth, magic
& romance.
About Me
- Kelley Heckart
- Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, October 24, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona Sunset Photographs
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
demagogue
noun dem·a·gogue \ˈde-mə-ˌgäg\
Popularity: Top 1% of
lookups
Simple Definition of
demagogue
: a political leader
who tries to get support by making false claims and promises and using
arguments based on emotion rather than reason
When the ancient
Greeks used dēmagōgos (from dēmos, meaning "people," and agein,
"to lead") they meant someone good-a leader who used outstanding
oratorical skills to further the interests of the common people.
Mid-17th-century writers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Dryden-and, later, Jonathan
Swift-employed the English word that way. But, at the same time, the word took
a negative turn, coming to suggest one who uses powers of persuasion to sway
and mislead.
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth, magic
& romance.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, October 17, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona Sunset Photographs
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth, magic
& romance.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
deke
verb \ˈdēk\
Popularity: Bottom
30% of words
Definition of deke
Deked dekeing
transitive verb
: to fake (an opponent) out of position (as in
ice hockey)
intransitive verb
: to deke an opponent
deke noun
Deke originated as a
shortened form of "decoy." Ernest Hemingway used "deke" as
a noun referring to hunting decoys in his 1950 novel Across the River and into
the Trees ("I offered to put the dekes out with him"). About a decade
later, "deke" began appearing in ice-hockey contexts in Canadian
print sources as both a verb and a noun ("the act of faking an opponent
out of position").
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth, magic
& romance.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, October 10, 2016
Monday Musings: Is it the thought of dying that really pushes us to live?
This time of year always has me reflecting on life. Maybe it’s
the dark half of the year and the shorter days that send my thoughts into deeper
places than usual. I’ve been thinking about what it means to be human and
mortal. Something that we will probably never truly understand. Here are some
things to ponder:
It’s the thought of our fragile mortality that drives us to
hurry and get something accomplished before it’s too late. If we were immortal
and had all the time in the world, then we wouldn’t be motivated to do
anything. What’s the hurry to do something great if you have forever to do it?
The greatest invention wouldn’t have been created by
immortal men.
We think death is a punishment for being human, but maybe it’s
what makes us truly human.
It tests us.
It dares us…
To feel what we normally wouldn’t. Like passion,
inspiration, and motivation. If we didn’t have that feeling of getting old and
dying, would we have the urgency to fall in love?
Without death looming, we would be nothing but unfeeling
shells. And that’s no way to live. Is it?
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth, magic
& romance.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, October 05, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
dejecta
noun plural de·jec·ta \di-ˈjek-tə, dē-\
Popularity: Bottom
20% of words
Definition of dejecta
: feces, excrement
Origin and Etymology
of dejecta
New Latin, from
Latin, neuter plural of dejectus
First Known Use:
circa 1829
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, October 03, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona double rainbow
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth, magic
& romance.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
deictic
adjective deic·tic \ˈdīk-tik also ˈdāk-\
Popularity: Bottom
30% of words
Definition of deictic
: showing or pointing out directly
Origin and Etymology
of deictic
Greek deiktikos able
to show, from deiktos, verbal of deiknynai to show — more at diction
First Known Use: 1876
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, September 26, 2016
Monday Musings: Moon photos
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
dehisce
verb de·hisce \di-ˈhis\
Popularity: Bottom
30% of words
Definition of dehisce
Dehisced dehiscing
intransitive verb
: to split along a natural line; also : to discharge contents by so splitting
Origin and Etymology
of dehisce
Latin dehiscere to
split open, from de- + hiscere to gape; akin to Latin hiare to yawn — more at
yawn
First Known Use: 1657
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Monday Musings: My new backyard pets
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
degauss
verb de·gauss \(ˌ)dē-ˈgau̇s\
Popularity: Bottom
20% of words
Definition of degauss
transitive verb
: to remove or neutralize the magnetic field of
degausser noun
Origin and Etymology
of degauss
de- + gauss, after
Karl F. Gauss
First Known Use:
circa 1940
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, September 12, 2016
Arizona Monsoon 2016 Part 2
My photo assistant
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, September 07, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
defalcate
verb de·fal·cate \di-ˈfal-ˌkāt, -ˈfȯl-, dē-;
ˈde-fəl-\
Popularity: Bottom
20% of words
Definition of
defalcate
Defalcated defalcating
archaic
transitive verb
: deduct, curtail
intransitive verb
: to engage in embezzlement
defalcator play
\-ˌkā-tər\ noun
Origin and Etymology
of defalcate
Medieval Latin
defalcatus, past participle of defalcare, from Latin de- + falc-, falx sickle
First Known Use: 1541
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, September 05, 2016
Arizona Monsoon 2016 Part 1
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
dawn horse
noun
Popularity: Bottom 10% of words
Definition of dawn horse
: eohippus
any of a genus (Hyracotherium syn. Eohippus) of very
small primitive horses from the Lower Eocene having 4-toed forefeet and 3-toed
hind feet
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
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| Beauty may be the real beast. |
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, August 29, 2016
Monday Musings: Snow on Lake Havasu mountains photograph
We had snow on the Lake Havasu mountains back in March of 2016. I'm posting the picture now because it is so hot here, I thought this might help me cool off. Maybe it will work for other people trying to endure the hot summer. I think it's working. LOL I already feel a little cooler.
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
|
| Beauty may be the real beast. |
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
daw
verb \ˈdȯ, ˈdä\
Popularity: Bottom 30% of words
Definition of daw
chiefly Scottish
intransitive verb
: dawn
Origin of daw
Middle English, from Old English dagian; akin to Old
High German tagēn to dawn, Old English dæg day
First Known Use: 13th century
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
|
| Beauty may be the real beast. |
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
daven
verb da·ven
\ˈdä-vən, ˈdȯ-\
Popularity: Bottom 30% of words
Definition of daven
intransitive verb
: to recite the
prescribed prayers in a Jewish liturgy
Origin of daven
Yiddish davnen
First Known Use: circa 1930
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
|
| Beauty may be the real beast. |
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, August 15, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona Sunset photographs #24
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
|
| Beauty may be the real beast. |
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
daimyo
noun, dai·myo
\ˈdī-mē-ˌō, -(ˌ)myō\
Popularity: Bottom 30% of words
Definition of daimyo
plural daimyo or daimyos also daimio or daimios
: a Japanese
feudal baron
Variants of daimyo
also daimio play \ˈdī-mē-ˌō, -(ˌ)myō\
Origin of daimyo
Japanese daimyō
Kelley Heckart
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth &
magic.
|
| Beauty may be the real beast. |
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
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