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April 1, 2021 2021 A to Z Challenge

2021 A to Z: Letter A…Weird Holidays

2021 A to Z: Letter A is for Feast of the Ass Day (January 14) The Feast of the Ass

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March 31, 2021 Word Wednesday

The Poetry Fox

Welcome to Word Wednesday. I know I usually give you a “word of the day”, but today, I give you

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March 29, 2021 2021 A to Z Challenge / Monday Musings

Fictional Holidays

In prep for the A to Z blog challenge of April, #atoz [check out my theme reveal “Weird Holidays”], I

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March 26, 2021 Around Town / From The Editor's Desk

The Meandering Mississippi River

This is a map of the Mississippi River, created in 1944 by a cartographer named Harold Fisk. It’s called a

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March 24, 2021 From The Editor's Desk / Grammar / Language / Words

Typos and other reasons to double check everything

“We take in sensory information and combine it with what we expect, and we extract meaning . . . When

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March 22, 2021 From The Editor's Desk / Writing

Errata and Marginalia

Errata lists in the early days of printed books, then, were themselves a sort of early comment section—the place where

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March 20, 2021 Writing

Saving Mr. Typewriter

Dear Tom Hanks, Thank you for making typewriters cool again. I think, typewriters force you to think. They offer a

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March 19, 2021 Writing

Vintage Typewriters – Which one is right for you?

From the 1920s- 1970s. Which Typewriter is Right for you? This image is courtesy of mycupofretro

March 18, 2021 2021 A to Z Challenge

Theme Reveal – A to Z Challenge April 2021

Since I’m trying to be more consistent with the blog for 2021… I decided to jump into the A to

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March 18, 2021 Writing

Mitsakes happen (whoops, Mistakes!)

Yes, mitsakes (Mistakes) happen. Back when you were using a manual typewriter, there was no backspace or spelling / grammar

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March 17, 2021 Writing

Corona Typewriter on Broadway, 1922

This post has an image of a large Corona typewriter on Broadway show Ed Wynn’s The Perfect Fool (1922).

March 16, 2021 Writing

“Striking” facts about the typewriter

Typewriters, or the ideas of typewriters have been around since the fourteenth century. In the beginning, more than one hundred

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March 15, 2021 Writing

Dancing on Typewriter Keys, 1937

In 1937’s “Ready Willing and Able” movie features Ruby Keeler and Lee Dixon dancing on the typewriter keys, during the

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March 14, 2021 Writing

California Typewriter: A Documentary

Doug Nichol’s 2016/2017 documentary film, California Typewriter has a mix of creativity and technology, includes artists, collectors, and writers such

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March 13, 2021 Writing

Typewriters in Literary Fiction

Two minutes, four seconds of typewriters on screen, set to Leroy Anderson’s irrepressibly jaunty “The Typewriter.” The supercut, courtesy of Ariel

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