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Books I started a month or two ago and finished this month: – Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Great book! It’s completely accessible, even if it seems like it will be daunting. I very much liked this book. – The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This was another good one, although the writing style …
Last week my co-worker emailed this video to me with the note, “For someone who makes their living with words…” I thought it was so sweet and wanted to share it with all of you 🙂
We all have those words that we use regularly but don’t really know how they’re supposed to be used. One of my sets of “problem words” is very ordinary: the toward/towards conundrum. I never know when to use toward and when to use towards. Normally I just use whatever “sounds right” in the sentence. But …
I didn’t read nearly as many books in March as I did in February. Somehow I just didn’t make the time for reading last month. Hopefully I’ll be able to read more in April! Books that I began reading in previous months and continued to read in March but have yet to complete: – Crime …
How we word things can change our perception of them considerably. When we use terms such as struggle and difficult, we are more likely to set ourselves up for failure than if we use terms such as challenge and overcome. Those are success words. That’s why, now that I am embarking on a six-month raw …
I have recently been doing some public speaking; last month I spoke at a conference in front of about 40 people, and then this past weekend I was the emcee and Maid of Honour at a wedding and had to speak in front of about 140 people. Public speaking is one of the things that …
Growing up, the mother dear, sistertraveller and I used to always tease the father dear because he didn’t “properly” pronounce the word “tiger.” Whereas the three of us pronounced it “ty” (as in the word “tie”), he pronounced it “tay” (as in the word “take”). We’d go into fits of giggles whenever he said the …
I was recently looking through one of my favourite books, The Canadian Press Caps and Spelling 19th Edition (what? I’m a rhetorician. Naturally this would be one of my favourites 😉 And yes I was flipping through it just for fun. Nerd!), and I have to say that there were a few words in there …
February was another great month for books! It actually really helps, knowing that I’ll be writing a book list at the end of the month, to make sure that I keep reading. It’s not as though I have tons of time on my hands… it’s more that I am re-prioritizing my time. Instead of cruising …
I’d forgotten how heartbreaking the story Tuesdays with Morrie is. I saw the play at Manitoba Theatre Centre a few years ago, so when I recently found the book at a second-hand bookstore, I snatched it up. Last week I started reading it… it is one of the sweetest stories. This quote from Mitch Albom …
Someone – I forget who it was – used this word recently in conversation. I’ve always known the general gist of what context the word can be used in and such, but I’ve never known the exact definition of it. So I looked it up in my trusty Canadian Oxford English Dictionary, and this is …
“Let’s remember that cancer is a chronic disease,” the mother dear said to a client yesterday. The mother dear is a veterinarian who specializes in acupuncture, chiropractic, and physiotherapy. Many of her patients are ones who need extra help because Western medicine can’t do much for them. Because of this, a lot of the patients …
I’m partway through reading Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, and I came across a couple paragraphs in particular that I wanted to share. In this section (Chapter Nine – “Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle”; page 157), he discusses the first sentence of Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike; …
I’ve never kept track of the books that I read, but I thought it might be fun to start keeping a list of all of them. And it just might inspire me to start reading more books, too! Every month I’ll publish a blog post with a list of the books that I read that …
One of my current favourite television shows is Mad Men. From my point of view, as a rhetorician, what’s not to like about the show? It’s based around the concept of advertising, communication, and power struggle within relationships. I find the rhetoric of Mad Men to be fascinating. Something about the show that I really …