Five hundred posts ago, I was working on writing down some thoughts about our recent move to Spain, [Read more]
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Strange that a D used to look like a sort of fish, [Read more]
Finally, look off to the right between those two slanting trees. Someone is coming this way. [Read more]
In order to do that, the “sleep until we can’t sleep anymore” task had to be postponed. [Read more]
Who do you know in some of the ‘stans? Kazakhstan? Uzbekistan? Turkmenistan? Tajikistan? Send them my way. [Read more]
I guess it’s time to celebrate–Happy Two Hundred Lori Notes! I can’t figure out a way to get cake or sparkling cider to all of you, but I can [More….]
As part of an editing project I’m doing right now, I wondered about the current thinking on anymore vs any more, so I turned to Merriam-Webster for an opinion. The first pay-off of my search [More….]
Just as an artist might cringe to see someone leaving a paintbrush squashed bristle-end-down in a can, I feel some pain when words get mangled or tied together badly [More….]
I’ve got several posts at various stages in the draft process–I’m waiting to add pictures to some, trying to figure out the direction of others, and working on polishing the language of still others. But the last bit of editing I did was not on one of my own pieces; it was on el Guapo’s eulogy for his father, who died on Friday. He was 95. [More….]
November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo to its affectionate friends. If this idea intrigues you, here’s a recent interview with Chris Baty, the man behind the movement. The project began with a few [More….]
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