Word for Word: Mulligan

I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in person. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. We write for five minutes. In this example, the word is:

Mulligan — a stew made of leftovers. I added the final sentence after reading that Alito’s remarks about Roe v. Wade repeatedly cite a seventeenth-century misogynist who executed witches.

I took this photo in the Hawthorne District in Portland, Oregon years ago — across the street from my apartment.