Joanna B.
Subscriber since: Wed Jan 20 13:18:31 EST 2010
Location: Chicago, IL
About Me
Avid reader, writer, strategist, professional marketer/communicator and business coach. Love travel, tennis, yoga, horseback riding, cooking, animals, music, dance, art and so much more. Born/grew up in New Orleans -- love to explore the world no matter where I am. Love words and the ability they give me to paint a picture, tell a story, formulate a strategy or relate to a person ...
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Favorite Word:

imagination

Least Favorite Word:

try

Favorite Quote:

"Logic will take you from A to Z ... Imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein

Favorite Topics:

Blogs:

Books:

"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse
Highly Entertaining and Informative

Branding:

The Rare, Overstuffed "Turduckenym"
Electrifying!

Dictionaries:

The Post-Dictionary World?

Fun:

Very Spatial and Capable Lethal Aid

Grammar:

Seven Sentences You Should Stop Writing
How to Make Your Sentences Shorter

How to write:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start

Language:

Metaphors We Live By (Updated)
Brand Names of the Year for 2021

Libraries:

Love Your Librarian

Linguistics:

Scale Your Onboarding

Marketing:

What Do Plus Signs Add?
Brand Names of the Year for 2019

Media:

Understanding "Maven"

Naming:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Understanding "Maven"

Online:

A Recipe for Time Travel

Word Origins:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Scale Your Onboarding

Poetry:

And Forget the He and She
In Praise of Ambiguity

Politics:

Suffrage and Language
Unidentified Aerial Horse Apples

Reading:

How to Read More Books

Spelling:

To Bee or Not to Bee?

Teachers:

Teaching:

Teach Your Children Well

Usage:

Comparative Nonsense
Unexpected Cousins

Vocabulary:

The Post-Dictionary World?
A "Dumpster Fire" of a Year

Words:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse

Writers:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start

Writing:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start