I am trying out a new weekly series on my blog…a word of the week. As a writer, I have always been obsessed with language and words. It always felt so magical to me the way beauty can be created by stringing together words in unique and interesting combinations to form different images in the mind’s eye. I also am intrigued by how words have come into existence and use in the English language (I specify English because I am not multilingual in any way). Recently, I ran this idea by my good friend, Susan Marinelli, another wordsmith who shares my obsession with words and language (you can read her…