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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Friday, January 18, 2008

Grammar Oddity of the Week

The next in our almost weekly e-mail series, brought to you courtesy of The New York Public Library Desk Reference, Fourth Edition.

Page 437:
The word facetiously has all the vowels, including Y, in order.

Page 447:
Charlotte Bronte and William Wordsworth asked their publishers to correct the punctuation in their manuscripts.

Page 444:
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own jokes.”

Makes you wonder what F. Scott would say about emoticons and texting!! LOL
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1 comment:

testmonkey said...

"An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own jokes."

Thank you. Thank you very much.

January 18, 2008 at 4:33 PM

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