“Oh my gosh, how can you stand that billboard at Franklin and Tennessee?” asked my coworker, who called me while stopped at the intersection. She was referring to this: This is an example of grammar that, while not technically incorrect, is just awkward. According to the Columbia Business Times, “Stronger Connected” is a trademarked slogan developed as […]
Stronger Connected
Broken (A Mama Kat Writing Workshop Prompt)
When I put the numbers 1 through 5 into the random number generator this week to help me choose a writing prompt for Mama Kat’s Writing Workshop, I got 5: Describe a moment when you saw someone hit their breaking point. *** It was me. I saw myself hit my own breaking point. In 2008, […]
Wordless Wednesday (Defying Gravity Edition)
I “Elphaba’d” Myself This Week on Wicked Day (10/30/10) but Tenley (foreground) really gets the credit for “defying gravity” in her American Academy of Ballet Performance (10/23/10), for which she was awarded a gold medal (photo credit: Bill Lucas)
Just For One Day
A blog post popped up on my Facebook today that changed my blog post topic for tonight and how my entire day will go tomorrow. The Communication Shutdown will help raise funds for and awareness of autism worldwide. Jess’s post, which was followed a bit later by its twin post on Luau’s blog, invited us to join her in […]
Your Home is My Home (A Mama Kat Writing Workshop Prompt)
For tonight’s post, the random number generator handed me prompt #2: If you could witness (or take part in) any event in history, what would it be? Why? This sounded deceptively easy until I tried to decide what historic event I would write about. My decision coalesced when I was commenting on Dan Rockwell’s Leadership Freak […]