Aloha Eddy
Subscriber since: June 2011
Location: Newport Beach, CA
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Author: "Aloha Eddy Line"-Writer-Retail Real Estate Expert-Traveler-Golfer-Love my wife,LINDA-My Family-Architecture-Reading and Photography.
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Favorite Word:

please
Please is one half of three words that I feel we don't say enough. The other is 'Thank you.'
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Favorite Quote:

""Life happens when you're making other plans.""
- Unknown

Favorite Topics:

Books:

"Yes, I Could Care Less": A Mixed Bag
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Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 14, 2013 - 2 Comments

Branding:

How "Livery" Changed Its Spots
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XOXO Marks the Spot
February 14, 2013

Business writing:

Red Pen Diaries: Das Kapitalization
November 8, 2010 - 6 Comments
Buzzword Watch: "Acq-hire"
September 28, 2010 - 7 Comments

Creativity:

Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010 - 2 Comments

Fun:

How "Baloney" Got Phony
May 3, 2013 - 2 Comments
Gentleman Turkeys and Other High-Class Gobbledygook
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Grammar:

Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
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Such Examples as These
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How to write:

How to Overcome Your Writing Shame
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10 Non-Writing Activities That Will Improve Your Writing
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers April 15, 2013 - 9 Comments

Marketing:

How to Name Anything
January 17, 2013 - 4 Comments
Brand Names of the Year for 2012
December 11, 2012 - 8 Comments

Media:

Words from a "Surreal" Week in Boston
April 22, 2013 - 2 Comments
Roger Ebert's Lexicon: Fruit Carts, Idiot Plots, and Wunza Movies
April 5, 2013 - 7 Comments

Politics:

How Language Shapes The Gun Debate
February 28, 2013
Letting "Sequester" Fester
February 21, 2013 - 4 Comments

Reading:

Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
March 7, 2013 - 2 Comments
Writing Packed with Life
February 4, 2013 - 5 Comments

Spelling:

Scripps National Spelling Bee Adds Vocabulary Questions
April 11, 2013 - 3 Comments
Rosanne Cash Knows Her "Ischium" at a Literary Spelling Bee
November 20, 2012 - 1 Comment

Storytelling:

Type Casting
January 24, 2012 - 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011 - 5 Comments

Visual Thesaurus:

Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012 - 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012

Vocabulary:

Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013 - 1 Comment
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013 - 7 Comments

Web tools:

Twitter Me This: New Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
November 15, 2011 - 3 Comments
Tracking Dialects on Twitter: What's Coo and What's Koo?
November 4, 2011 - 4 Comments

Writers:

Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 14, 2013 - 2 Comments
Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
May 7, 2013 - 3 Comments

Writing:

Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 14, 2013 - 2 Comments
How to Overcome Your Writing Shame
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 13, 2013 - 4 Comments