It's the Little Words That Count
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Thursday, November 05, 2009
I love grammar and proper usage.
I come by it honestly; you should hear the members of my family correcting the others’ grammar. It’s obnoxious, actually.
For my children’s sake I’ve never wanted to be one of those mothers who hen-pecks her children when they talk. (I should note that my mother did not do this; it was my siblings and I who pestered each other as self-appointed grammar police.)
On... READ MORE
How Do You Say That?
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Thursday, September 24, 2009
This time of year brings my school memories rushing back.
There were a lot things I loved about being in school, especially in college. I miss many of them. I do not, however, miss the job that comes to me and all the unusually-named whenever we are in new situations: explaining to a fresh crop of people how to pronounce our names.
I was in school before the Lord of the Rings movies came out, so... READ MORE
Please Don't Say That
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Thursday, September 10, 2009
Yesterday Camilla and I were unloading laundry from the dryer when she suddenly said, “Stupid!”
I glanced at her, trying to play it cool, and as she began to repeat the word it became clear that she wasn’t using it as an adjective to describe either of us. She was just saying it because she liked the sound.
Still. “Stupid” is not a term we want our child using. I gently told her that she needed... READ MORE
Write or Die - Easy way to overcome Writer’s block
Posted by Sr. Patricia Proctor, OSC in Family on Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Okay, this is it. I have to write a post because I am a guest blooger.. and guest bloggers are supposed to blog about something. Doesn’t matter if they have nothing important to say.. They should have thought of that before they agreed to be a guest blogger! So here I am at Dr. Wicked dot com - with my timer set for ten minutes and my word count for 500. And I’m off.
Do you know about Dr. Wicked?... READ MORE
So Natural
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Monday, February 16, 2009
Yesterday at Mass, one of the boys started to sit back during the consecration.
“You need to kneel,” I whispered to my son.
“It’s just that I’m so, so tired,” he whimpered.
“Jesus was so, so tired when he carried that cross for you,” I said.
To be honest, I didn’t finish the whole sentence because I was caught off guard by how naturally the words flowed from my mouth. Did I really just think that, I marvelled. Where do I get this stuff?
Forming their conscience, or Catholic Mother’s Guilt—call it what you will. Either way, I think it’s a gift God gives us at the baptism of our first born child.
Enjoy, my fellow Catholic moms—and keep up the good work!
‘Banished’ Words
Posted by Danielle Bean in Just me on Tuesday, January 06, 2009
I love words.
So you can imagine my fascination with Lake Superior State University‘s 2009 List of Banished Words.
What did these words and phrases do to deserve “banishment”?
Nothing, really. They’ve only been overused to the point where some self-appointed “word watchers” have voted them out.
Making the list of overused and therefore banished words this year are environmental buzzwords like “green,”... READ MORE
Word Love
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Monday, November 17, 2008
Language is an incredible thing.
I’ve thought so for as long as I can remember. I think my devotion to A Child’s Garden of Verses and the poetry of A.A. Milne began almost at birth. My mother tells a story of a barely two-year-old me describing my sister as she learned to crawl: “She’s eating the meadow flowers!”
When I first discovered Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” some years later, I had to memorize... READ MORE
Mithplonounthed
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Friday, August 01, 2008
My daughter Camilla and my sister’s son Daniel, almost 22 and 26 months respectively, are talking up a storm. But the thing is, what they’re saying and what it sounds like they’re saying are sometimes two very different things.
My sister and I have had no end of fun with the noise Daniel makes when he tries to say the “f” sound. “Say fish, Daniel!” we prompt him, and he obliges. It sounds something... READ MORE
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