words
November 6, 2009
- The other morning I was staring out the window at all the leaves on the ground, marveling at how so much come from almost nothing. A bit of water, a bit of soil, a bit of sun, and something exists where nothing did before. I cherish those leaves. There’s no lawn here, just native grasses, so I don’t need to rake the leaves. I let them finish out their natural cycle of replenishing the soil ...
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November 4, 2009
- For the first time in my life, this past week I felt pity. It may sound strange as the word is so commonplace and yet it was profound experience. As a writer, I am fascinated by the near impossible challenge of capturing human experience in words. It is the ultimate paradox: to attempt to capture the subtleties, complexities and vastness of human experience with materials and tools that are ...
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October 29, 2009
- October 27, 2009, 8:00 am Words We Love Too MuchBy Philip B. CorbettNotes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style.I’ve steered away from my give-this-word-a-rest refrain recently. For one thing, these are among the most subjective judgments — one person’s handy shorthand is another’s grating cliché. And I was afraid that if I denounced too many words as overused or worn out, our ...
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October 19, 2009
- Where do I begin to begin to end? Why does it seem so difficult? Is it because I have been writing here on Red Room, for one long year now, on a daily basis, sometimes twice a day, whenever the fancy took me to jot down the moments that passed at Windsong, with my boys, the dogs, the garden,the hubby, the coffee pot, the clothes line, the grief, the regret, the longings, the sadness, the joys, ...
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October 17, 2009
- Trying to clean up and sort through books, notebooks, get things more organized, de-clutter. I can’t help but peek into my old notebooks and journals to see what’s inside while I shuffle through everything. Partially pulled in some way by Thaisa Frank's blog on journaling and perhaps looking for words that speak to me, that are in me, were in me, and have resurfaced today, but that I can’t ...
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October 17, 2009
- Yesterday on Facebook, I asked a question that comes up for the middle-aged, unmarried man or woman who has a partner, a significant other, a lover, a sweetie, a honey, a "man, a "woman," a ball and chain, a companion.What word to use for that said person that doesn't sound stupid.When I was in the hospital and basically not truly all there, a nurse and I had the following ...
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September 26, 2009
- Last night I hit the 6,000 word mark in my first book! I have to say I'm pretty happy about it. I've been celebrating every 1,000 words since I reached 3,000. I figure that since it's my first book, every thousand words is a major step towards finishing it and starting what will most likely be a life-long writing career, so I should go ahead and celebrate each milestone. I give myself a treat of ...
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September 24, 2009
- I love the taste of words.Every day I link together a short string of words to post on my other blog, a small stone. (Don't tell Planting Words that I post there too, she might get jealous).If my life (or my head) is full, I snatch them wherever I can find them and scribble them down before rushing off to 'the next thing'.This week I've managed to find a little more space. On Tuesday evening I ...
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September 14, 2009
- The fog lifted around noon and the grey mist gave rise to a pure blue sky that lifted the spirits and had me head for the clothes line. Feeling better after my fall, my energy was high and spirits were in fine fettle. How quickly one rebounds, how magnificent is the human body! The dog was in the vets since early morning undergoing an X-ray to his neck. It revealed that his discomfort is either ...
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August 24, 2009
- short and shriftOn some level, I like the expression short shrift. But I just can't condone such unhealthy codependency. Like trove and amok, shrift is devoted to a partner that doesn't return the loyalty. On any given day, short can be seen running around all over town with everything from sell to order cook to man's disease.This case of codependency is so bad that shrift has pretty much lost ...
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