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:
Dennis Baron's "What's Your Prounoun? Beyond He & She" is a Timely Winner
February 27, 2020
- 2 Comments
Inspiration to All
December 10, 2019
- 1 Comment
Fiction writing:
How to Name Your Characters
November 4, 2019
- 3 Comments
How to Become More Interested in What You're Writing
June 24, 2019
- 2 Comments
How to write:
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:
And Forget the He and She
December 2, 2019
- 2 Comments
In Praise of Ambiguity
July 23, 2014
- 2 Comments
Reading:
How to Read More Books
November 19, 2018
- 5 Comments
Pride and Prejudice and Natural Language Processing
April 2, 2018
- 2 Comments
Writer's block:
Four Ways to Build Mental Toughness for Writing
December 23, 2019
- 7 Comments
How to Become More Interested in What You're Writing
June 24, 2019
- 2 Comments
Writers:
Dennis Baron's "What's Your Prounoun? Beyond He & She" is a Timely Winner
February 27, 2020
- 2 Comments
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