Definitions

Nina-Paul-Shumway’d, -ing (verb): To stomp around, usually in the desert, particularly in the Coachella Valley. It is taken from the Author of Your Desert and Mine.

An Mayee: Your name for Mommy’s Aunt Mary

Fitch:  Wheel of Fortune

Jebae: Jeopardy!

Taywum’s House: Your name for Grandma Janie’s trailer at the beach

Pawa and Dight: Your name for my mom and her husband Dwight

Papa and Bube: Your name for my dad and his wife Nona

Alligator: an escalator

Go way!: You still have problems with double vowel sounds, so things like ‘Go away!’ become ‘Go way!’

Wizing Desert: The Living Desert

Majamas: Pajamas

Dressert: dessert … mmm