All Work and No Play

… makes me an uninspired, uncreative, dull, dull, dull girl.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m glad I have a job. Maybe even lucky. But lately, my job has left me completely drained – of energy, of time, of creativity, of inspiration. Every day, I go to office, put in eight hours (sometimes more) of my time, [...]

Word of the Day: Ambulate

Ambulate

Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): am·bu·lat·ed; am·bu·lat·ing
Etymology: Latin ambulatus, past participle of ambulare
Date: circa 1623

: to move from place to place : walk

Why would you use the word “ambulate” when the word “walk” will work just fine, especially if you have already used the word “walk” to set up the sentence in which you [...]

From My Inbox: My Mom’s Last Wish

E-mails like this one I got today make my job both very difficult and very rewarding.  It’s hard when you know that a lot of the people who write for you may not have very much longer to live.  But it is also rewarding to know that you, if even in a small way, have [...]

Most Annoying Web Site Ever

www.kidshelping.org
Okay, maybe it’s not the most annoying Web site ever, but it’s the most annoying Web site to me at this moment.  It’s a great organization, but I think they may need a little help.  Any volunteers? 

Congradulations!

From my inbox:
Congrads on your new position as editor.
Seriously? Come on people. For clarification, this was not some casual e-mail sent to me by a friend. If it were, I would have ignored it. (After all, I don’t spell check casual e-mails I send to friends. I don’t always spell check my blog.) But it [...]

So You Had a Bad Day

http://www.glumbert.com/media/baddayoffice

It might be "worth while" to learn the difference between affect and effect.

From my Inbox:
One suggestion I do have is to possibly get on a call with our president…He can talk about mold and its affect on allergies, and he can also provide solutions, with a VERY soft sell of our product (fact sheet attached). Let me know if that’s something worth while to pursue and I’d [...]

I Could Care Less

From a manuscript I’m currently editing:
I pick up a magazine, but I can’t concentrate on that either. The latest fad diet or newest winter fashions seem so inconsequential. I have a long “To Do” list, but I could care less.
And to save time, I’ll just steal someone else’s words:
The expression I could not care less [...]

Q&A with John Kerry

This is just one question out of eight in the actual interview. It was the one that I found the most interesting. Enjoy!
Senator John Kerry was diagnosed with prostate cancer while on the presidential campaign trail in 2002. In a recent interview with Coping With Cancer magazine, he speaks candidly about beating cancer, losing an [...]

From My Inbox: It Gives Me Great Joy

E-mails like these (in reply to an acceptance letter I sent for her poetry submission) totally make my day and make the occassional stress worth it.

Laura, You cannot image how your email lifted my sprits yesterday. I teach struggling high school students, and by the end of the day yesterday, I rather felt that my [...]