08/28/2026
I follow Merriam-Webster Dictionary on IG and a few months ago they spotlighted the word “quafftide,” an obsolete word used in the late 1500s as ‘a one word announcement that it’s time for a drink’ AND I noticed my recent literary obsession, the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman , regularly has characters ‘quaff’ their potions which just reinforces what a great word it is.
Every Friday I make myself a Manhattan to officially end the workweek and since that post, that weekly event is known to all as quafftide 🥃
Last week I went out to dinner with a dear friend (who is one of my quafftide enthusiasts) and bemoaned that I needed to figure out smart, interesting titles for all the paintings I’ve been working. She suggested uploading the painting and/or prompts to AI, which I have tried and let me tell you, it is one thing that AI is HORRIBLE at. Seriously, absolute cringy crud. No humor or wit. Just bad.
So last Friday my English major/editor husband (who is scowling in the photo but is really a nice guy) and I sat on the front porch for quafftide, me with my Manhattan and he with a Sierra Nevada pale ale, and he came up with names for all my recent paintings and let me just say, he did a much better job than AI! (If you want to see the paintings and titles, they’re on my website in the ‘on the easel’ page)
🥂 Happy quafftide! 🍻
