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I’m fond of compound sentences, and I struggle to write without them. Why do I feel no single sentence can stand alone, without being connected to yet another? I sometimes read what others have written. Complex sentences often seem the exception, rather than the norm with my writing. Years ago I started writing a non-fiction book. My editor [...]
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Fine, Barry. I’ll play the latest game. So why I blog? 1) Because I actually think about stuff other than search. Sometimes. Like when I can. And it’s nice to write about it. Because, you know, I’m a writer. Or I try. 2) Like Barry, it’s a handy way to keep track of stuff I want to [...]
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I never planned to be a writer. I wasn’t a big writer growing up. I didn’t write fiction, never worked for the student newspaper, didn’t keep a journal. I sort of stumbled into it by wanting to avoid any more math when I was deciding on my college major. Math wasn’t my thing in high school. I went [...]
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I’ve had a Citibank credit card since I was in college. That’s nearly two decades of being with them, which means that little table they stuck up one day at UC Irvine has provided pretty good ROI for the company. Over the years, I’ve had various letters from Citibank, usually signed by [...]
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Driving back from the airport this weekend after our vacation, I put on an audio CD for the kids, one of the Horrid Henry stories. In part of the story, he was said to have “sneaked” into a room. Sneaked? Surely he “snuck” into the room, I thought. But then I lost [...]
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