Playing

With kids, (or their names, anyway)

Get Bent.  Ben Gay.  Benedict Arnold.  Benjamin.  We be jammin’.  PB and J.  Space jam.  Jam oh knee, Jamaica, jicama, Ben Folds 5, Bento box…Benson, get bent, bend, Bend OR, bench, bennifer, benevolent, mercedes benz

Declination, deck of cards, decline, declivity, decked out, get decked, house deck, "space deck" (amazon echo feature), deck on a boat, hecklin' and feckless, eclair, elan

Summer, summation, sum, some, Somme, something, summa cum laude, simmer, Samer, Sumer, Sumerians, seem, same, assume, simulation, simple, samsara, sumo wrestling

Esme, Esmeralda?, May, dismay, dismal, ez, ezekial, jezebel, emerald, lesbian, pez, fez, mesmerizing, reservoir, reservation, says, hezekiah, bessemer

Augie, august, augur, OG, ogden, ogle, smog, fog, bog, jog, hog, cog, dog, log, nog, pog, toggle, balrog, snog, foggy bottom, groggy, doggy, quoggy!

Hugo, wherever I go - Hugo, hugs, Yugo (car), Yugoslavia, bugle, flugelhorn, jugo (juice in spanish), go to the zoo, you go girl,