The Lost Art of Being a Dame
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| Blog Name: | The Lost Art of Being a Dame |
| Url: | http://www.dames.typepad.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | women, popular culture, film |
| Description: | Celebrating the dames who've come before, and cultivating the dame that lies within. Learning to live life with gumption, grace, wit and wisdom. |
| Popularity: | 39 Followers |
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What's Old Welsh for Closet-Crammed-With-Betsey-Johnsons?
When I was knee-high to a Hedda Hopper I loved to get those little booklets they sold by the cash register at the supermarket. I’d read and re-read all the 1,000 Baby Names books. Even now, decades later, I know dozens of useful facts like Ellen means light, Todd means fox, Thurston (as in Howell) means Thor’s stone, and that Sally is a diminutive of Sarah which in turn means princess. I never tired of naming my dozens of unborn future children; Clementine, Eudora (well-born), Tristan (Old Welsh for sad) and Tallulah (Native American for fabulou
When I was knee-high to a Hedda Hopper I loved to get those little booklets they sold by the cash register at the supermarket. I’d read and re-read all the 1,000 Baby Names books. Even now, decades later, I know dozens of useful facts like Ellen means light, Todd means fox, Thurston (as in Howell) means Thor’s stone, and that Sally is a diminutive of Sarah which in turn means princess. I never tired of naming my dozens of unborn future children; Clementine, Eudora (well-born), Tristan (Old Welsh for sad) and Tallulah (Native American for fabulou
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