The A to Z Guide to Phobias
Beanophobia: A well-founded fear when they serve baked beans at the banquet before your Jr.prom.
Deanophobia: That long-ago fear in college that you’d be caught sneaking into your dorm after hours.
Geneophobia: The fear that Ancestry.Com will unearth something dastardly in your family tree.
Jeanophobia: Your grandmother’s fear that you’ll show up in shredded jeans for you aunt’s wedding.
Keeneophobia: An unexplainable dislike of Nancy Drew Mysteries.
Leanophobia: An iffy excuse for breaking your diet.
Meanophobia: What keeps you as far away as possible from the snotty group of girls in high school.
Preenophobia: Your stubborn refusal to sneak into the girls room during the interval of the movie to check out your hair and lipstick.
Queenophobia: A co-occurring disorder suffered by Anti-Anglophiles.
Sceneophobia: That feeling of dread when you let your boyfriend talk you into going to a slasher movie.
Teenophobia: A common phobia suffered by the parents of children between the ages of 12 and 20.
Weanophobia: the reluctance of first-time mothers to give up nursing.
Weeniephobia: A debilitating fear of hot dogs that causes one to avoid fairs and football games.
Xenophobia: An unreasonable dread that one might have been born in 1966 instead of 1965.
No surprise that the prompt today was Xenophobia, Image by Vadim Bogulov on Unsplash.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Your picture tapped into one of my phobias–but the list made me laugh 🙂
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Very cute
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Fun poem!
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What a fun expose of modern-day life!
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Enjoyed this😄
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This was really great!
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All of these made me laugh. Thanks!
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Quite amusing and some probably genuine!
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Hahaha! Excellent
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I enjoyed your list. My teenaged daughter is rereading the Nancy Drew mysteries, and I’ve reread a few along with her. Some common elements: bad guys who always have hard faces, descriptions of almost every outfit Nancy and her companions wear, and car trouble somewhere along the way. A bit laughable, but an easy and mindless read when that’s what I want. I read Anne Tyler’s Clock Face recently, after your earlier book recommendation post that mentioned any work of hers. It was good, and I’ll likely read another.
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An interesting bit of trivia. Larry Reeves, who was the editor for the Nancy Drew books, retired and moved to Lake Chapala and was in two of my writing groups. He loved the children’s stories that I was writing and tried to influence the current editors to publish them. Didn’t work out, but then Glen Yarborough moved here and said he’d like to set them to music. We were working on a radio show “From the Lighthouse.” I wrote the scripts for the show and we had some of the lyrics set to music…but then he had an operation to remove nodules from his throat and lost his voice. Ships that pass in the night. I did self publish them in storybook form and most of them have been set to music but I haven’t followed through.. Too many projects. Make for fun stories, though.
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I like that bit of trivia. For every blocked way, there are those serendipitous moments, too, when pieces fall into place like magic. I’ve written a few children’s stories that would make good picture books but haven’t done anything with them. They’re somewhat like poems in that the ideal is to make every sentence count. But I find them much harder to write.
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Greenophobia: the fear that you might get lost in the jungle and eaten by wild beasts. You’re so clever and fun. Thanks for sharing this one.
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Or by carniverous plants. When you come down, Judy, are you bringing some of your books? Instead of preordering I’d rather buy one from you if you are bringing them. Can’t wait to read it.
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Oh yes! definitely carniverous plants. Thanks for asking about my book. I’m not sure how many I would have to bring down. The timing may depend on whether or not I get accepted into the San Miguel writing conference. I’ve applied to teach several workshops. I’ll keep you posted on what. Delighted you want to read it. I want to read yours too!
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That would be great if you were accepted at San Miguel. I haven’t been for years but definitely would go if you were there.
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I’ve been wanting to go for years too. Teaching would be the best way, but even going as a participant would be great.
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Any chance it will be in an audible form?
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not anytime soon. My daughter wants to narrate it, but I’ve heard it’s best for authors of memoir to narrate their own. At a meeting yesterday several women memoirists who also have books coming out from She Writes Press about the same time, talked about this. I hope to do it one day though.
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