For those who don’t recognize the reference, I’m starting an entry for my Favorite Things as I either discover them or rediscover them. Not to mention that I just love saying “bright copper kettles.” copper kettles, copper kettles, copper kettles. I mean we have three types of linguistic stops in there. We have the labial ‘p’ and the alveolar ‘t,’ but that Velar Stop of the ‘c’ and ‘k’ feels amazing. You know I used to think I liked glottal friction the best (i.e. “uh-oh”) but I realized it’s the word “glottal” that I actually like, thereby glottal stops being my favorite, as in ‘bottle’ or as indicated before ‘glottal.’ Hmm….it’s been years since I took a linguistics class and I’ve probably gotten all this wrong, but I digress.

I just realized that my first entry sort of screams of my older sisters and me. The alcohol represents Maddy, the Starbucks represents Marie, and the adding of fattening cream or milk and drinking too much of it represents me (I’m a walking deadly sin). A true family delight.

Starbucks Coffee Liqueur and milk over ice. (Soy milk will do, for you Vegans) It’s like a white russian, sans vodka.