susie
Subscriber since: December 2009
Location:
leesburg,
FL
About Me
I am susie I am a cancer survivor with a limited grasp on vocabulary and reality. I live by a simple code. One day at a time. I know its simplistic over used and boring but it works for me. I love language because it loves me back. No one listens to me the way they do when I write it down. Ive the most illuminating experience of dying and today I live. Today I live and choose to do it loudly. In writing. Despite my inabilaty to spell or remember simple mechanics, for some reason people still hear me because I have something to say!
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Favorite Word:
perceptionPerception is just what it pretends to be. The percieved thing. Always changing, in light, in circumstance in chance and being. In the moments of hope, in hoplessness, the difference between morning and tired eve. perception is the image between eyes and me, feeling and being. It is changing always and is interpreted only by the interpreter. Me.
Least Favorite Word:
irregardlessI dont know, it just seems stupid and wrong. Mabey some english teacher I cant remember said it was redundant or something.
Favorite Quote:
"Dont ever ride on the devils knee, momma says mamma says rememember mamma says. It'll only put strange notions in your head mamma says remeber mama says... hear it, hear it, ticking ticking."
- Bernie Taupin
Favorite Topics:
Blogs:
What's the Deal with "Auld Lang Syne"?
January 2, 2012
Celebrate the National Day on Writing
October 19, 2011
Books:
Surveying the Mind-Boggling Diversity of American English
February 8, 2012
- 4 Comments
I DARE Say!
January 17, 2012
Creativity:
Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010
- 2 Comments
Fun:
"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012
- 6 Comments
Language:
"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012
- 6 Comments
Surveying the Mind-Boggling Diversity of American English
February 8, 2012
- 4 Comments
Language arts:
The Wild Kingdom of Animal Adjectives
January 31, 2012
Better Off Banished?
January 24, 2012
- 3 Comments
Linguistics:
Surveying the Mind-Boggling Diversity of American English
February 8, 2012
- 4 Comments
Linguists:
A Linguist Answers, "Why Do I Do What I Do?"
January 17, 2011
Telling the Life Stories of Words
December 7, 2010
Reading:
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011
- 5 Comments
Storytelling:
Type Casting
January 24, 2012
- 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011
- 5 Comments
Students:
This Summer: Reading Pays!
June 20, 2011
What's in a Name? Students Reveal Their Words
June 14, 2011
- 14 Comments
Teaching:
Black History Month
February 9, 2012
Ducking Under the Caution Tape: Approachable Poems
January 30, 2012
- 3 Comments
Visual Thesaurus:
Vote for the VT as Top Language Website!
December 23, 2011
Jamie McKenzie on Finding the Best Words
November 16, 2011
- 6 Comments
WordMasters:
WordMasters: Grade 7 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 7 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
Words:
"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012
- 6 Comments
Writer's block:
Getting Unstuck
July 24, 2008
Why You Should Think of Yourself as an Orange
June 4, 2008
- 11 Comments
Writers:
"Not to Put Too Fine a Point Upon It": How Dickens Helped Shape the Lexicon
February 3, 2012
- 12 Comments
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