Semicolons have been on mind lately, mostly because I’m reading To the Lighthouse and I’ve never seen an author use so many semicolons. I believe Woolf’s record is 6 in one sentence, but I could be wrong. Plus, I’m not … Continue reading
It’s been awhile since we chatted about punctuation (you remember that pesky one space rule, right? and my deep and abiding love of parentheses (unless I’m at work)? oh, and my confusion over em-dashes?). While parentheses will always hold a … Continue reading
I seem to be a bit more aware of punctuation lately. It started with this post about one space v. two spaces (and wow, I never would’ve guessed that so many of us were “typing Luddites” as Lyndsey put it). … Continue reading
Actually, I saw the light when I switched from Blogger to WordPress. But I’m not talking about which blogging platform to use. Rather, I’m talking about the one space rule. See, I grew up in an era when typing was … Continue reading
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain
