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Sometimes a simple word just won’t do. Every once in a while I’d rather use a fancy twenty-dollar word than a worn-down two-bit one. And on occasion I just want to make the people around me stop and say, “What?” That’s why, instead of describing something like, say, an ice cream cone as “cone-shaped”, I [...]
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First things first: the deadline for the Second Annual Just Write Summer Reading Contest is rapidly approaching. Check it out! In spite of my flight being rerouted (thanks, Fay) and having to spend six hours in the Atlanta airport I made it home safely, having enjoyed everything from the regular swimming to the monorail rides. [...]
There’s a saying in show business, “Never work with children or animals”. The obvious reason is that, given their cuteness, children and animals will upstage almost any actor. The less obvious reason for not working with children, though, might be their parents. You know the type: excessively controlling, overprotective, and convinced their children aren’t just [...]
How do you know when a word should be hyphenated and when it shouldn’t? It often depends on usage. Take, for example, the word hitchhike, which almost always throws me because I have to stop and think, “Are there two h’s in the middle or does the first one absorb the second?” Hyphenating the word–as [...]
I was supposed to be in Florida right now, but trust a tropical storm whose name begins with F to force a cancellation of my flight and foul up my plans. At least Fay only postponed my trip. Soon I’ll be on my way to the Southern part that juts out into the Gulf of Mexico [...]
Blogger Jeannie has written quite a bit about being a parent of a child with Tourette’s syndrome, both on her new blog Special Needs Parent and children of a lesser god…(not). This reminded me of Oliver Sacks’s book The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. In his introduction Sacks explains that this is [...]
”As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I am of it. As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” This statement, made by Eugene V. Debs, a Socialist and Presidential candidate who ran for the last time [...]
There used to be a woman from Ireland in the office where I work, and not only was she an extremely friendly, funny person but she also managed to expand my vocabulary. One of my favorite words of hers was gormless. Whenever she’d have to deal with some idiot on the phone she’d hang [...]
Lately in the evenings I’ve been able to step out on my back patio and see the Moon and Jupiter hanging close to each other in the sky. A few nights ago they were almost on top of each other. Now they’re moving father apart. This time next week, according to Weather Underground, they won’t [...] |
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