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Writing Clinic: All Together/Altogether, All Ready/Already, All Right/Alright
In the English language, we love to combine our words but then become confused as to how to use them, especially if the meaning changes slightly. We often find this with words that involve all, such as...
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Breaking the Myth
In a time when our writing is becoming less proper by the moment, we still are hanging on to the old myth that a sentence should never end in a preposition. I know I avoided it for most of my writing...
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What “I” Says About Me
If I use the word “I” often, is it really all about me? A recent article by Elizabeth Berstein in the Wall Street Journal said that the amount of times we say the word “I” says more about us than we...
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LOL, My BFF
Texting is not a verbal language. My son-in-law Steve says this to the young people whom he works with. But it probably won’t be long before some of it actually is. Language is never stagnant. If you...
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Truth Be Known
In the presence of young children you hear some interesting stories. I worked in preschool classrooms for a number of years as an assistant and then as the lead teacher. It wasn’t unusual to learn from...
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Lost in Interpretation
The first thing I said to my sister when I called was that I couldn’t talk long. “How long do you have to talk,” Patti asked. And then we both laughed. With the inflection in her voice, it sounded like...
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Why We Write
My online friend, Terry McDermott, asked me to continue a series on writing that is being passed from one writer to another. There are four basic questions you may find of interest if you are a writer...
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Expressing Sympathy
“We have no words to express our sorrow.” Really? There are at least a quarter of a million words in the English language. Did you actually run out of all of them? After a death, we wish to express our...
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Statistics and Magician’s Wife
Storytelling throughout history was the passing on of the essence of an event. Specific details were not necessary. It was a person’s emotional interpretation of a significant occurrence. The heart...
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A writer died and met St. Peter at the pearly gates. St. Peter told the writer that she’d be going to heaven but would satisfy her curious mind by showing her hell before entering. The writer walked...
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