Mrs. Miss Ms.

My very first wedding couple has come back for Couple Portraits. They brought me hot chocolate. I love chocolate, hot or otherwise.

At Heritage Ranch there was this nutty little dog that kept bringing a stick, then growling. It wanted to play tug of war...or, 'hey you; throw my stick! ' I tried to throw his stick, but he hung on tight. What a funny dog.

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I've never liked the word (or non word) Mrs. It's pronounced oddly, looking at the spelling.
I looked it up because my impossibly cute 8 year old wonders where such a goody word comes from. I go to great pains to avoid being called Mrs. Corcoran. It makes me feel like a frumpy old lump dressed in beige Melton, complete with stuffy hat and ugly clutch purse. The unmistakably peevish sound of Ms. (miz) doesn't do much more for me. Mrs. has a happier history - it's short for Mistress. I like that much better. Anyone wanting to call me Mistress has my full blessing. It sounds so much more mysterious...titillating even! Even if it just means that I am married; although, I really like that part!

Etymology: Mrs. abbreviation of mistress; Mesdames from French, plural of
Madame1 a -- used as a conventional title of courtesy except when usage requires
the substitution of a title of rank or an honorific or professional title before
a married woman's surname b -- used before the name of
a place (as a country or city) or of a profession or activity (as a sport) or
before some epithet (as clever) to form a title applied to a married woman
viewed or recognized as representative of the thing indicated