Online graphical dictionary

Caution — you may not be able to stop playing with this one: Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click [...]

Win a Date with the Queen

It pays to read The Daily Progress! Otherwise I never would have heard that we have until 9:00am Monday, April 30 to enter a lottery to win a place at the Queen’s Walkabout in Richmond on May 3. Remember — you can’t win if you don’t enter!

Literature and the World of Work

Really good article from The Guardian this morning about the interplay between work and literature: Melville’s sailors, Hemingway’s soldiers and Roth’s writers – many of our greatest novels are driven by work. Yet few of us have such romantic occupations. Joshua Ferris, author of an acclaimed debut about office life, goes in search of the [...]

Spelling for charity

A few weeks ago one of the women in our writing group suggested we form a team and enter the Spelling Bee & Dee, which is a fundraiser for Literacy Volunteers and Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic. Because we refer to our writing group as CHERCH (the initials of our names), we competed as [...]

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