Eliminate this word in 2015

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis This is one of my favorite quotes by C.S. Lewis. I started late.  I graduated from high school late.  I was nearly 20.  I had failed English so many times in middle...

Online Vocabulary Class?

I am thinking of offering a new class in the spring. There are so many English words that come from Latin and Greek roots.  Really.  Once you start digging, it is astonishing what you find. Growing up, I had no idea how influenced our language was by Classical...

The two types of people…

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” – Mark Twain

What would you do with one year off?

How One Simple Christmas Gift Helped Harper Lee Write One of the Most Profitable Books of All Time By Brian Warner Merry Christmas. Hopefully you didn’t ask for the standard iPad, PlayStation, Beats by Dre, smartphone etc. and instead you decided to think a...