Friday Fiction: A Writing Doppelganger?
Barack Obama & Ilham Anas Do you know what a doppelganger is? I didn’t – that is, until an episode of How I Met Your Mother defined the word for me. According to American Heritage Dictionary, however, a doppelganger is…
Wednesday Words: Idioms, in a Nutshell
My son begs over and over to do something that I have repeatedly explained is SO NOT going to happen. Still, he’s in my face with the persistence of a severe case of hiccups and reasoning he’s spent more time…
Monday Musings: Gently Prodded
Once you finish your first novel, you think, “Hey, I’m a writer! I can do this!” And you bask in that warm sunshine for a while, getting a nice tan and feeling pretty darn good about yourself. Until you start…
Wednesday Words: Sesquipedalianism
I love long, descriptive words that hint at their meaning. Serendipity is surprisingly delightful every time it rolls off my tongue. The word tentacles seems to reach and encircle me. Rambunctious has a pop in the middle of the word…
It Begins with a Hurricane
While 104 mile-per-hour winds rattled and ripped apart our roof and rain swirled and surged into our dining room, we slept soundlessly on the brass bed of a relative’s home. Hurricane Ike was assaulting the shores of Southeast Texas, and…
The Write Challenge
Tooling around on Twitter, I linked over to the Round of Words in 80 Days challenge through another writer. Aha! I thought. This is just what I need. After spending the last few weeks toting my car from one shop…
Julie Glover, Word Lover
I LOVE words! I don’t necessarily mean that I enjoy talking. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. But I love the sumptuousness of language. I relish words, lyrics, accents, sarcasm, idioms, proverbs, and all things language–even punctuation and grammar. Some…