laura
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Location: Haleiwa, HI
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Favorite Quote:

"A man may do a great deal of good for the world, if he doesn't care who gets the credit."

Favorite Topics:

Books:

"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse
Fri Aug 13 09:00:00 EDT 2021
Highly Entertaining and Informative
Tue Aug 03 08:00:00 EDT 2021

Creativity:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start
Thu Jul 28 11:00:00 EDT 2022
Of Time, Happiness, Creativity and Writing Accomplishments....
Thu Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2021

Grammar:

Seven Sentences You Should Stop Writing
Mon Nov 23 09:00:00 EST 2020
How to Make Your Sentences Shorter
Thu Jun 25 09:00:00 EDT 2020

Language:

Metaphors We Live By (Updated)
Thu Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 2022
Brand Names of the Year for 2021
Thu Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2021

Language arts:

The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2015
The Art of Subterfuge: Using Pop Culture to Create Interest in the Classics
Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 EST 2014

Libraries:

Librarians Suggest Good Books for Kids of All Ages
Tue Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2013
Love Your Librarian
Mon Sep 26 00:00:00 EDT 2011

Linguistics:

Scale Your Onboarding
Thu Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2022
Tricky, Special, Fruitful, Space-Flavored Fiddle-Faddle
Thu Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2022

Poetry:

And Forget the He and She
Mon Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 2019
In Praise of Ambiguity
Wed Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014

Politics:

Suffrage and Language
Mon Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2020
Unidentified Aerial Horse Apples
Wed Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019

Reading:

How to Read More Books
Mon Nov 19 00:00:00 EST 2018
Pride and Prejudice and Natural Language Processing
Mon Apr 02 00:00:00 EDT 2018

Storytelling:

Should You Self-Publish?
Mon Oct 26 09:00:00 EDT 2020
Why You Should Consider Back-And-Forth Writing
Thu Sep 24 09:00:00 EDT 2020

Students:

2015 Spelling Bee: Co-Champions Triumph Again, as Vanya and Gokul Prove Unbeatable
Fri May 29 00:00:00 EDT 2015
"Sinister Buttocks" and the Dangers of Thesaurus Flipping
Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2014

Teachers:

The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2015
How Can English Teachers Nurture Young Writers?
Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2015

Teaching:

Teach Your Children Well
Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2019
The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2015

Usage:

Comparative Nonsense
Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019
Unexpected Cousins
Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019

Visual Thesaurus:

The Post-Dictionary World?
Thu Jun 03 09:00:00 EDT 2021
Poll Stars
Mon Oct 19 09:00:00 EDT 2020

Web tools:

Twitter Me This: New Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
Tue Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2011
Tracking Dialects on Twitter: What's Coo and What's Koo?
Fri Nov 04 00:00:00 EDT 2011

Word Origins:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Thu Jul 21 12:00:00 EDT 2022
Scale Your Onboarding
Thu Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2022

WordMasters:

WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
Mon Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2011
WordMasters: Grade 3 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11
Mon Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2011

Words:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Thu Jul 21 12:00:00 EDT 2022
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse
Fri Aug 13 09:00:00 EDT 2021

Writers:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start
Thu Jul 28 11:00:00 EDT 2022
How to Survive the Feast or Famine of Freelance Writing
Thu Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2022

Writing:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start
Thu Jul 28 11:00:00 EDT 2022
How to Survive the Feast or Famine of Freelance Writing
Thu Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2022

Young readers:

How to Encourage Summer Reading
Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 EDT 2014
Fifteen Ways of Looking at "The Woods": Jumpstarting Poetry in the Classroom
Tue Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2013