“Write drunk, edit sober.” I had to learn this one from my daughter. Not that she drinks–that I know of–but the other night while I was up late working on the script for Vacation Bible School, I was typing so fast because my brain was firing ideas faster than I could record them, and I […]
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
Month: June 2012
Ray Bradbury passed away recently at the age of 91. I was 14 when I bought my first Bradbury book at the Higginsville Country Fair book sale in 1986. It was a paperback copy of The Illustrated Man. I bought it partly because I knew the name Ray Bradbury, but not knowing why he was […]
CON-san-GWIN-i-TEE, adj., relating to or denoting people descended from the same ancestor. Consanguineous marriages are those in which the spouses are related to one another by blood, hence the root sanguine.
SO-bri-KAY, n.; a nickname.
n., A word that can mean the opposite of itself, such as ‘cleave.’
A friend of mine wears very conservative, one-piece swimsuits. She had left her swimsuit and shorts over at a friend’s house, but she didn’t remember where she left them. The friend didn’t know whose they were, so she threw them away. A couple weeks later she emailed my friend the bad news, having recently realized […]