As I was reading this article about how half of the world’s languages are in danger of dying out, I started thinking about just how much the English language has changed and evolved, a language spoken by nearly half a billion people every day.
I’m not talking about the changes since Shakespeare’s time, with phrases like [...]
Clarifying Complex Ideas
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Evolving Language
Another 40: Days 15-20
I never intended to post every day during this challenge, but here I am, wondering how six days managed to pass me by.
The good news: I’ve worked out three times in six days. Two of the three days off were work-related and one was a planned rest day. I’ve cleared out my inbox so that [...]
Another 40: Days 12-14
I’m scrambling to play catch-up. Work is all-out insane this week as all clients try to close everything out before the end of the year. The end of the year is Friday. Oh, sure, that’s only the 18th, but with people taking vacation during Christmas week and the week after, that only leaves a small [...]
Another 40: Days 10 and 11
Is it Friday already? Where did the week go?
I went running yesterday morning. It was 38 degrees and cloudy, but I wanted to get out before the forecast hit: rain, rain, rain, rain and more rain. Unfortunately, the rain came earlier than I expected. I got soaked and raced for home, chilled to the bone [...]
Another 40: Days 5 and 6
The weekend comes in one consolidated package.
Highlights: A Saturday morning pilates session that left me feeling beautifully stretched out on Saturday and ab-sore on Sunday. Stumbled across four decent $1 finds on the clearance rack at the used book store around the corner. A good phone conversation with my 91-year-old Nana. Made homemade meatballs with [...]
Stan’s Leap
A couple of years ago, I edited an early version of Stan’s Leap, a novel by Tom Duerig. The book is finally available in print, and since my experience with it is several revisions removed from the final version, I’m looking forward to reading it in its final form.
If you’ve read the book, let [...]
My Conflicted Relationship with Kindle
I said I wasn’t going to do it. I wasn’t going to make the leap to Kindle, no matter how many people raved about it. I was going to be a traditionalist, darn it, and I was going to read real books on real paper.
But then they dropped the price to $299, and [...]
Travel Reading
I’ve already read two books on this trip, and both are worth recommending.
The first is Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, by Christopher MacDougall. It takes everything that I thought I knew about running and tosses it out the window.
The second is The Girl [...]
Kindle
Ever since its initial release, I’ve been deeply intrigued by the Kindle. The people who have them swear by them, and I had finally convinced myself that the benefits of being able to carry an entire library on the plane far exceeded my reservations about the conversion.
But then it hit me: for me, books [...]
