My oldest brought home some strange homework the other day. He was instructed to list his three favorite words.

“Three favorite words?” I asked. “That’s a weird one.”

I do have favorite numbers, and I feel very strongly about numbers. Prime numbers are the best numbers, and eleven is the best of the best. Even numbers are the worst. It was a real struggle last year when I was 40 years old and the year was 2024 and everything was divisible by everything and I hated it. But now I’m 41 (prime!) and it’s the year 2025 (not prime, but an acceptable odd number) so things are better.

Anyway. Words. Do I have favorite words? I thought it over, and a few came to mind.

Asinine
Redundant
Entropy

I think those might be my favorite words, but I’m little disturbed by what that says about me. And why do I like them? Because of how they look? Because of how they sound? Because of their definitions?

I feel like as a mother I’m supposed to say “my favorite word is please and my other favorite word is kindness” but that is just stupid.