Fightin' Words with...Kristine Langley Mahler

We conclude our June round of Fightin' Words with Kristine Langley Mahler, author of this month's featured memoir, "Good Sorts."  Here, she shares the single best word (or number!) for:

1)  The smell that brings you back to the best time in your life: piñon

2)  Your last dream: remarriage
3)  Covering your tracks: LOOK!
4)  Your sense of style: 1998
5)  The most beautiful thing to say: October
6)  The hottest day of the year: birthday
7)  What you’re hungry for: enough

8)  Deletion from the dictionary: It hasn't made it in yet, but OMG I would do anything to make people stop saying the self-congratulatory verb "adulting"