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March 18, 2022 Friday Fun / From The Editor's Desk / Pens & Notebooks

Pens… Pencils… Notebooks… Pads… Oh My

If you didn’t know, I’m a pen-a-holic. I’m also a notebook and pad hoarder. If I find something I like,

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March 16, 2022 From The Editor's Desk

Long Time No Blog…

Welcome back … how has it been 10 months since I’ve written on you. I guess it’s the blur of

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May 5, 2021 From The Editor's Desk

Words are spells. Writers are witches.

The dream: a tattered notebook bursting with snippets of fairy poems and the first paragraphs of a bewitching short story…

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April 2, 2021 2021 A to Z Challenge

2021 A to Z: Letter B…Weird Holidays

2021 A to Z: Letter B is for Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day (Last Monday in January) In 1957, Engineers Marc

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March 5, 2021 From The Editor's Desk / Writing

Getting Words on the Page: Writing Routines

Like most things in life, there’s no “one size fits all” solution here. Every writer works differently and has different

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March 1, 2021 Editor's Toolkit

Organizational Tips: How to Print on Index Cards

Are you a plotter or a pantser? If you plot, do you use post it notes, grocery receipts, notebooks or

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February 17, 2021 Book Club / Books

Facilitating Discussion: Book Club General Questions

We’ve all been there at book club, ready to talk about the story, the characters, the plot… then silence. How

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February 12, 2021 Book Club / Books

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom [A Book Club Discussion]

The Yellow Houseby Sarah M. Broom Published: 2019-08-13New York: Grove Press — Currently reading this for @BookNOLA club choice for

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February 10, 2021 Fictional Feasts / Literary Gastronomy / Literature

Fictional Feasts / Literary Gastronomy, part 2

Welcome back for Literary Gastronomy, Part 2. “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

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January 13, 2021 Books / Fictional Feast / Literary Gastronomy

Fictional Feasts / Literary Gastronomy, part 1

Virginia Woolf, who placed much emphasis upon dining within her works, famously said that “one cannot think well, love well,

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December 30, 2020 From The Editor's Desk / Literature / Travel

Literary Tour: New Orleans

I’ve recently become enamored with the literary tours around the country that delve deep into the writing history of the

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November 28, 2020 From The Editor's Desk / Words

Favorite Words, Recommenced…

If you recall, back in… October… (seems like a lifetime ago in this pandemic), I had a post titled “FAVORITE

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September 25, 2018 Did You Know ? / From The Editor's Desk / Language / Words

Language: Alumnus, Alumni, Alumna, and Alumnae

Today’s Lunchbox Lesson: ALUMNUS, ALUMNI, ALUMNA, and ALUMNAE These words all describe attending or graduating from a particular school, but

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September 10, 2018 Around Town / Did You Know ? / research

Westward Ho: Ghost Signs in Omaha

In the days of Westward Expansion, before the freeways and highways were taking us places quickly, waves of migrants were

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August 24, 2018 Did You Know ? / Grammar / Words / Writing

Unwritten Rules of English Grammar: ‘Tock-tick’, ‘Dong-ding’, ‘Kong-King’

Thanks to something called ablaut reduplication — a rule stating that, if you repeat a word and change an internal vowel, the

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