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To List or Not to List
I accidentally came across this post I wrote in April, 2016 (I’ve been at this since 2004) and found it both interesting and relevant. So I’m re-posting..
“Today’s magazines are heavy on To-Do Lists and light on actual articles that
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Join Together
Campaign rhetoric builds on redundancy, that use of two or more words that say the same thing. Office seekers (and others) use it for emphasis, perhaps thinking they look smart. Or they’re emphasizing a point.
Here are some examples you’ve
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Michael Connelly
I didn’t know who he was until a neighbor gave Earl a book written by Michael Connelly. Turns out he is an American author of detective novels, according to Wikipedia, featuring LAPD detective Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch. Connelly has written 38
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Still Working On It
Earlier this year I began working on a book I’d like some famous publishing house to fawn over. Maybe even pay big bucks for it. Or get me on some best seller list. Of course, the odds of this are
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1440
I don’t know how 1440 came across my radar recently, but it is a free online newsletter that claims to pitch the news without opinions. Every day, subscribers receive an email detailing the essential news of the moment. The news
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Book Club
Tonight was my monthly book club meeting, and I was the moderator. We read A Doll’s House, written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879. I chose it because its themes of feminine servitude are relevant today, especially with recent Supreme Court
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Bookmarks
Long before it was commandeered by Google®, Microsoft Word, and other residents of the internet, the bookmark was an essential aid for any avid reader.
According to Wikipedia, “Bookmarks . . . are thin marking tools used to mark a
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Shred
My son, Kevin – poet, professor, runner, soccer and tennis aficionado – has finally seen the results of his four-year labor. He wrote a book about running and being during the pandemic, when he spent his sabbatical year in his
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Oxymorons
Oxymorons are everywhere. Earl recently gave me some, and my son Kevin and I have had more than one laugh about them.
By definition, according to one Richard Nordquist (whose credentials I didn’t check, but he seemed erudite enough) an
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Cubs Win, Cubs Win
I know. The title is a spoiler, but I want readers who aren’t baseball fanatics to have the option of closing the website until tomorrow, when I plan to write about oxymorons. And who doesn’t like a good oxymoron?
Anyway,
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