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I am getting forgetful, old and fat. I lack ambition and am a bit self centered. I scare easily and feel insecure a lot. Yet I think my situation is better than most peoples.
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epistemology
Calm reflection is all that is needed to study this jewel.
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""Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.""
- Thomas Carlyle
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Creativity:
Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010
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Linguistics:
About Those Dialect Maps...
June 7, 2013
How To Speak Teen
June 4, 2013
Linguists:
A Linguist Answers, "Why Do I Do What I Do?"
January 17, 2011
Telling the Life Stories of Words
December 7, 2010
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Words from a "Surreal" Week in Boston
April 22, 2013
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Roger Ebert's Lexicon: Fruit Carts, Idiot Plots, and Wunza Movies
April 5, 2013
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Poetry:
The Return of the Grammar Haiku Contest
February 28, 2013
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Celebrating Fibonacci Day
November 15, 2012
Teachers:
Writing Prompts for Students: How to Strike the Right Balance
June 4, 2013
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How to Teach Setting: Beyond Time and Place
May 29, 2013
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Web tools:
Twitter Me This: New Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
November 15, 2011
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Tracking Dialects on Twitter: What's Coo and What's Koo?
November 4, 2011
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Would You Prefer a "Cronut" or a "Dossant"?
June 14, 2013
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How "Emo" Got Political
June 7, 2013
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