Posted by: Victoria on: 2011/03/09
I subscribe to The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation (the BBGP) email newsletter and have done so for quite a while. I look forward to each new edition. My dog-eared copy of the BBGP sits proudly on my bookshelf within easy reach. I consider Jane Straus a high priestess of American English. The last newsletter I [...]
Posted by: Victoria on: 2010/02/25
(However, I am inspired by cats.) >^^< Nothing has ever intrigued a cat more Than something as simple as a half-opened door. Her tail just quivers. Her whiskers quake, As she ponders and muses on the mischief she’ll make. Just what could there be behind that portal? Perhaps cobblies or woozlies or something mere mortal? Curiosity raised, she [...]
Posted by: Victoria on: 2010/01/10
I’ve been told I uttered my first spoken word at the ripe old age of six months. During the 1967 pennant race. Whilst seated on my father’s lap as he watched the Boston Red Sox chase their Impossible Dream. Unsurprisingly, that word was “baseball”. Carl Yastrzemski may have won the American League Triple Crown, but [...]
