BIBLIOPHILE: noun a person who collects or has a great love of books.

Yep, that’s me. And, by association a bibliophile would also be a lover of words. That’s me, too. Just ask my husband. He says women have a certain number of words that have to come out each day and if they don’t, we’ll burst. Don’t you feel like that sometimes? That if you don’t speak the words will catapult out tumbling, rolling, wrecking havoc of their own accord? Can’t you just see them in there scheming, plotting, giggling to get out and do their worst? Or best?

Words are powerful. More powerful than we realize. Words create. Words destroy. Words inspire. Words discourage. (more…)