Cricket’s Hearth

My “adult life” began at age 16 with an unplanned wedding due to an unplanned pregnancy. Thus, I became a high school drop out and my dreams of college was placed on the back burner (actually they were not on the stove at all!). Twenty-two years and a divorce later, after raising two children, with one graduated from college and the other in the Navy, I finally was able to realize my dream. I absolutely loved college, despite despising being referred to as a “non-traditional student,” translated to mean being well past the average student age. I have often said since graduating from Kent State University (Summa Cum Laude, I must brag! lol), that college studies made sense to me, at least much more sense than they did to my 18-28 year old classmates. I believe this was due to having real life experiences to relate what was being presented, which really came in handy in history and social studies. I truly enjoyed my literature classes and learned to appreciate the idiocrasies of our English language. One of these are the capitonyms – words that take on a different meaning when they are capitalized. I hope you enjoy this list.