Collecting My Thoughts

"Coverage: Medium to Full. Finish: Dewy. For dry skin types. What makes this Merle Norman original foundation a cult classic? It has ...

Because verbiage is by definition an excess of words, the phrases excess verbiage and excessive verbiage are redundant.  Notice this exam...

Last night I e-mailed a photographer from Wisconsin asking permission to use his photo as a reference for a painting, and he graciously res...

Roy Tennant doesn’t know me, doesn’t read my blog, but I can identify, except I still think people need to have something to say before they...

Generate your own jargon With just a click, this little ap will provide the verb, adjective and noun you'll need to write that importan...

The clutter challenge A friend and I are challenging each other to remove some of the clutter from our homes and lives. We both have a pro...

Adverbosity I'm a sucker for qualifiers--"sort of," "rather," "just," "quite," and "too....