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Jan.09.2010
While working on my new blog ( "Scientific Words of the Week"), something got me thinking about the various uses for my "EasyTerms" book series. If you're writing fiction and want to have characters who seem knowledgeable about Biology (or Nursing, Anatomy, Medicine, Nutrition...
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Nov.19.2009
In any discussion of an abstract word or concept like “Peace,” I like to start with the point of view of the one who starts the discussion. In other words, I have to start with a premise. For me, “Peace” is more than a cessation of hostilities, whether those hostilities are between individuals,...
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Oct.09.2009
In big, beautiful, sweeping strokes, she drew her name - Miss Devereaux - in curvaceous, curlicue calligraphy across the black board with a stump of white chalk. She turned and smiled, slowly surveying the faces of the 20 students in her experimental English class. I sat in the far left row of...
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Sep.06.2009
STORYHEART SUNDAY UK BLOG - THIS ROYAL THRONE OF KINGS I was thinking about what to write in todays Sunday Blog, when something my guest on yesterdays "A Book and a Chat" (Shelley Seale) said made me think, in fact I did mention it in yesterdays blog.
The number of homeless children in...
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Aug.07.2009
I read an excerpt from the novel The Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo on Sunday at The Smitten Kitten, but only later, flipping through the pages I'd tabbed, did I realize I had neglected to share one of the sexiest parts. The story is about a young woman who comes to...
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Aug.04.2009
Below are some quotations about writing, grammar, and quotations:
Quotations are a columnist's bullpen. Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.
— Peter Anderson
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone...
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May.24.2009
Storyhearts Sunday UK Blog - Gomsmacked, Bobbies or an Arm and a Leg For this Sunday I'm going into not one but three saying that are used in every day English.
GOBSMACKED
What is the meaning of the word "Gobsmacked"?
Unlike many of these sayings this caught on in the 1980's it tends to...
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Mar.23.2009
Can you imagine the joy a Canadian-born gal like me, inured to below zero weather, finds in picking oranges and grapefruits off her own fruit trees in a Californian March, when northerly climates can still expect a humdinger of a snow storm or two (just when you think it's finally warming up, a...
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Feb.27.2009
I'm very happy to announce that the University Personnel Committee at St. John's University met on Wednesday and voted unanimously to approve my application for tenure and promotion--which means that I will be a tenured associate professor as of September 1st. Obviously this is a major milestone in...
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