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Several days ago a friend sent me a message via Facebook that said, “It’s your move in Scrabulous!” Since I can’t turn down a challenge I immediately joined the fray and was doing pretty well…until this morning. I logged in and got this message: It doesn’t matter that I was ahead by about thirty [...]
In many ways The Prince And The Pauper is so different from anything else he wrote it’s surprising it’s one of Mark Twain’s novels. Twain’s characteristic sarcasm, which even pops up occasionally in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is entirely absent, as are his occasional asides, unless you read the explanatory notes at the back [...]
Every once in a while I run across an obsolete or rare word that’s so lovely I want to put it into general circulation. A good example is demilune, which means “half moonâ€, derived, of course, from “lunaâ€, the Latin word for “moon†and “demiâ€, which comes from French, but was also originally derived from [...]
You die a few years before you are born.
Due to an upgrade in our local e-mail system, I’m afraid any entries sent in for the Just Write Summer Reading Contest within the past two weeks have been lost. However I’m also extending the deadline. Entries should now be sent to just-write (at) contentquake.com.
Although I went to a couple of summer camps, and even worked as a camp counselor one year–well, it was really more like outdoor daycare–I feel like I never really went to real summer camp. It wasn’t like the summer camps I read about in books like The Winnemah Spirit by Carolyn Lane or E.B. [...]
It’s amazing how adaptable people are. As recently as 1991, when Sue Thomas’s novel Correspondence was published, online commerce was still an idea of the future. While there were a few people using the Internet, it wasn’t as commonplace as it is now. That’s what makes the novel so prescient, at the same time that [...]
There are numerous Yiddish words that have been appropriated into English, from putz to schmooze to maven (see, for example, my very entertaining colleague The Movie Maven who lives up to the meaning of the term “maven” which comes from a Yiddish word meaning “expert”). Native Yiddish speakers could be forgiven for thinking this appropriation [...]
The headline, “How bad was J.M. Barrie?” screams sensationalism, and, although she does try to be balanced, Justine Picardie doesn’t seem too comfortable with Barrie the person. She opens with a “curse” Barrie “scrawled across the pages of one of his last notebooks”, “May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me”, and she [...] |
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