Mother Hen
Subscriber since: May 2010
About Me
Jodi Edwards Wright is a Canadian writer living with one wonderful husband, two crazy cats, and fibromyalgia, among other things.
She was a Co-Moderator of the Dealing with Depression team on SparkPeople.com for several years, and is a former Senior Moderator of the team. Under Jodi's leadership, the membership of the team climbed from only a few thousand to 500,000 plus.
Jodi currently writes two blogs, A Darker Shade of Blue, for women with depression, and Mother Hen's Nest, a humerous column dealing with life's issues.
http://adarkershadeofblue.wordpress.com/
http://motherhensnest.wordpress.com/
She was a Co-Moderator of the Dealing with Depression team on SparkPeople.com for several years, and is a former Senior Moderator of the team. Under Jodi's leadership, the membership of the team climbed from only a few thousand to 500,000 plus.
Jodi currently writes two blogs, A Darker Shade of Blue, for women with depression, and Mother Hen's Nest, a humerous column dealing with life's issues.
http://adarkershadeofblue.wordpress.com/
http://motherhensnest.wordpress.com/
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Favorite Word:
chock-a-blockWhat a delightful way of saying full-to-overflowing! It sounds as if it should be the name of a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor!
Least Favorite Word:
vulgarI probably dislike the word vulgar for the same reason that I like so many other words: it sounds like what it means.
Favorite Quote:
"The biggest risk is not taking any. The biggest mistake is not making any."
- Ricahrd C. Levy, Inventor of over 200 products, holder of 30 patents, and author of 12 books
Favorite Topics:
Blogs:
Getting "Gatsby": The Language Behind the Novel
May 10, 2013
- 1 Comment
Obsolete Words Worth Reviving?
March 21, 2013
Creativity:
Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010
- 2 Comments
Fiction writing:
The Power of General Statements
January 23, 2012
- 15 Comments
The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
August 8, 2011
- 12 Comments
Language arts:
Turning the Page: Short Fiction for English Language Learners
June 17, 2013
- 2 Comments
How to Teach Setting: Beyond Time and Place
May 29, 2013
- 4 Comments
Libraries:
Librarians Suggest Good Books for Kids of All Ages
January 15, 2013
Love Your Librarian
September 26, 2011
- 4 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
Poetry:
The Return of the Grammar Haiku Contest
February 28, 2013
- 2 Comments
Celebrating Fibonacci Day
November 15, 2012
Puzzle:
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: March Edition!
March 21, 2008
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: February Edition!
February 13, 2008
Reading:
Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
March 7, 2013
- 2 Comments
Writing Packed with Life
February 4, 2013
- 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:
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
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