A sweeping, fast moving state of anxiety that arrives without warning and takes everything in its path with it.
He had made an offhand remark, a minor joke, but to her it incited an anxiety-tornado, swirling, uprooting, splintering and lifting her sense of security with it until she felt herself to be an emotionally wrecked trailer park. And like a tornado, it passed and calm was once again restored.
by Monkey's Dad August 16, 2021
Watching the ageless couple sitting in a chair meant for one, gazing into each other's eyes, stroking, kissing, laughing at things no one else could see or hear, she expressed her own joy eloquently, muttering, "barf, barf, barf".
by Monkey's Dad December 26, 2022
An explanation for your failures, so spectacular that even those you have let down will put their hands together.
Asked why there was no quarterly report, the vp replied, with the straightest of faces, that he had been abducted on his way to the office, given a medical exam by aliens aboard their UFO, and that the alien's dog did actually eat all his paperwork, and he was extremely sorry. An applausible excuse, it seemed, as he got a laugh from the CEO, clapping filled the conference room, and was not fired for two weeks.
by Monkey's Dad March 13, 2020
by Monkey's Dad September 22, 2019
Seeing a face he knew on the front page of The Times, the first nurse in New York to die of the virus, it was becoming real, no longer a statistic, and other faces would follow.
by Monkey's Dad March 27, 2020
Excessively orderly and fussy, paying too much attention to detail, as the result of being locked in during the coronaviral era.
She had always been relaxed and carefree. But with nowhere to go and no one to see, she reorganized every item in the bathroom cabinet by size, color and alphabetical order, and worried she was becoming coronal retentive.
by Monkey's Dad March 31, 2020
1) An affectionate name for any dog of indeterminate breed, aspiring to designer status.
2) An unlikely mix of a poodle and, say, a Havanese, which, even though the resulting scruffy creature may possess two heads and eight legs, will still be right at home in the most upscale dog park.
2) An unlikely mix of a poodle and, say, a Havanese, which, even though the resulting scruffy creature may possess two heads and eight legs, will still be right at home in the most upscale dog park.
by Monkey's Dad September 16, 2019