#dashthursday

More than three months ago, Alexis Hall and I came up with the idea of a hippo who loves words. It came about after squeeing over the cutest dang video made by Canada about the fictional “house hippo” (and we both still want one). I took the idea of Dashiel Bartholomew Wilder and ran with it. 

I post a new Dash word every Thursday. I get words from all sorts of places - some are suggested by my various dictionary apps as their words of the day, some are suggested to me by friends. 

Dash is all about following your bliss and doing what makes you happy, even if that means the types of things he likes aren’t necessarily embraced by most hippos. Yes, Dash is my social commentary about a lot of things. I’ve got a book about Dash slated to illustrate this fall and my creative cohort and I are developing a plush for him. His fans have asked for one.