Language – Pamela Barroway

Cursive, curses? No! Cursive, creative.

Another holiday season, another slew of season’s greetings cards to send out.

I always compose brief notes on each card. For the occasion, I break out my (somewhat rusty) cursive writing skills.…

Crosswords are tremendous! Or, expand your word horizons.

Those “dog days” of August summer have arrived, with a head index of 105 degrees today. Stepping outside into this figurative blast furnace brought mental images of my mind – and plans for inspired writing discourse – boiling to a liquefaction halt.

Now back in air conditioned heaven, I’m trying, trying to reform coherent thoughts. To flex those writing muscles to ensure they aren’t completely atrophied from the relentless heat and humidity….

Spelling Mnemonics for Everyone, Everywhere

Brief
Piece
Shield
Shriek
View
Yield

Ah, third grade spelling lists. Above is a sampling of my son’s from last week, in which words containing “ie” were a significant focus….

(Writing) Truth in Fortune Cookies

Once a month my family goes to Chez Elena Wu for Wednesday night dinner. Reasons:

● It’s two minutes from my husband’s office.
● Mom’s weeknight cooking break.
● Wonton soup.
● Soft-shell crabs permanently on the menu!
● Fortune cookies.
● Fortune cookie fortunes…

Language Then and Now

A text message received last week:

[Pumpkin image] parT on Fri. R u going?

Eeeeeeeek! Commence internal editorial wincing.

I freely admit to composing (mostly) grammatically correct emails/texts/IMs, including abbreviations….