Exploring, Creating, Designing and Dreaming. Word Nerd is an on-going feature that shares and highlights unique, whimsical and sometimes forgotten or overlooked words. Is such a divinely poignant word and is fully defined by The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

In science we learned so much about weather. We learned the names of the clouds, what they looked like and what kind of weather they bring. We choose a city from each continent and we keep track of the weather each Wednesday. We use the iPod Touches to find the temperature and then record on a class graph and on our individual graphs. We wrote weather broadcast scripts for our city of choice and pretended there was a natural disaster in that city.

Facing the world with an open heart. Recording thoughts, actions, stories, fellow humans and their accomplishments. Just a day in the life. This silly bartender likes booze. She speaks of nothing except being stoned. Her hair is quite interesting. She wears too much makeup. Her see through tee shows too much and yet too little at the same time. A bulge over her Jean line. A Barrett clipped to hold straggling hairs. A dangling earring resembles an African nose stone.