Paco
Subscriber since: June 2010
About Me
I'm terminally curious and unapologetically brilliant. I speak Spanish, French, Portuguese, and am currently learning Thai. I'm interested in almost everything except multimedia daily news (excluding PBS); professional sports; and the personal lives of contemporary so-called "stars"; but I tolerate others' interests in them. I like to write poetry. I love my dog, Roscoe. I'm a single, gay man, enjoying the second half of my life. I do as much as I can personally to support ending world hunger and poverty, arresting the HIV pandemic and helping people living with HIV, stopping animal neglect and cruelty, protecting a biodiverse environment, and ensuring human rights and equality worldwide. I like traveling. I cook. I read. I like learning. I like hiking. I like kayaking/canoeing. I'm adventurous and fun. I'm blessed with the best network of friends and family that anyone could want. My life is rich. Dislikes? Lying; Injustice; Prejudice and Bigotry; Hypocrisy; Cruelty.
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Favorite Word:
synchronicityThis is the way the Universe works: things fall together in the right way at the right place at the right time, and synchronicity generates synergy which produces synthesis causing sympathetic responses in the whole fabric of existence.
Least Favorite Word:
hopefullyIt's used incorrectly almost all the time: "Hopefully, (something will happen)." It should be: "I'm hopeful that (something will happen)." It's one of many indications that people today divorce themselves from their feelings. It exposes people's fear of allowing themselves truly to feel something about the horrors that still exist in our "modern" world. If they admit their true feelings, they may also feel compelled to act, and that frightens them: it's too big; it's too hard; they may fail.
Favorite Quote:
"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi (Bapu)
Favorite Topics:
Creativity:
Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010
- 2 Comments
Dictionaries:
A Taxing Day for Dictionaries
April 15, 2013
A Worldly Tour of the Oxford English Dictionary
January 23, 2013
- 3 Comments
Fiction writing:
The Power of General Statements
January 23, 2012
- 15 Comments
The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
August 8, 2011
- 12 Comments
Fun:
How "Baloney" Got Phony
May 3, 2013
- 2 Comments
Language arts:
A Wicked Worksheet of the Week
May 15, 2013
Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013
- 1 Comment
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
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
Usage:
Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013
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
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
Word Origins:
Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013
March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013
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