She was taller than the rest of us. I can’t remember her name, but I can see her face, always frightened, with her eyes looking around, a little lost, as searching for help. She had trouble understanding simple words. I had trouble too. But my case was different. I...
Write 500 words on any topic you like. Now remove 250 of them without changing the essence of your post. I’ve past a great deal of my professional life writing texts and adjusting them later to a specific length to fill a column, or a page in my newspaper. So I’m used...
How do you communicate differently online than in person, if at all? How do you communicate emotion and intent in a purely written medium? What a question! I try to convey emotions, if necessary, with (oh surprise) words. As I did before the on-line era in my letters...
This is clearly subjective, but some words really sound like the thing they describe (personal favorites: puffin; bulbous; fidgeting). Do you have an example of such a word (or, alternatively, of a word that sounds like the exact opposite of what it refers to)? What...
