Jaye
Subscriber since: May 2008
About Me
Administrator and poet. Wife, mother of one and grandmother of three.
Not yet superannuated, but close.
Not yet superannuated, but close.
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Favorite Word:
superannuatedI first read it as a 7th grader in a Washington Irving essay about an upstate New York Christmas and used it in an essay I wrote in the 8th grade. He wrote of his "superannuated spinster aunts." I wrote of my "superannuated widowed grandmother." The word appealed to the little Latinist that I was then, and still appeals to the word person that I am. Moreover, I love agglutination.
Least Favorite Word:
awesomeA perfectly lovely word that has been made odious by overuse in (to my mind) unsuitable contexts.
Favorite Quote:
"The sun shone having no alternative on the nothing new."
- Samuel Beckett
Favorite Topics:
Books:
Of Kings and Eggs and Presidents
September 17, 2018
September 17, 2018
Fiction writing:
Do You Agree With These Quotes About Writing?
November 17, 2017
- 5 Comments
Seven Strategies for Banishing Your Perfectionism
November 27, 2015
- 2 Comments
Language arts:
The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
April 28, 2015
- 4 Comments
The Art of Subterfuge: Using Pop Culture to Create Interest in the Classics
December 5, 2014
- 4 Comments
Poetry:
In Praise of Ambiguity
July 23, 2014
- 2 Comments
How the Rediscovery of a Poem Helped Kickstart the Renaissance
July 9, 2014
- 1 Comment
Reading:
Pride and Prejudice and Natural Language Processing
April 2, 2018
- 2 Comments
Stats Meet Lit in an Insightful New Book About Writing
April 19, 2017
- 1 Comment
Words:
The Geeky, Cosmic, Philosophical History of "Multiverse"
May 23, 2018
- 1 Comment
First Past the Post
May 1, 2017
- 3 Comments
Writer's block:
Why You Should Write Like a Jazz Musician Plays
June 27, 2018
- 6 Comments
How to Reestablish Your Writing Habit After a Break
May 26, 2018
- 7 Comments
Writers:
How and Where to Find Stories
July 16, 2018
Why You Should Write Like a Jazz Musician Plays
June 27, 2018
- 6 Comments
Writing:
Why I'm Writing This Column on a Treadmill
October 18, 2018
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