“Medieval gauntlet” (CC BY-NC 2.0) by fullon2012 I recently wrote a piece in which I compared driving in a country as “running a gantlet.” My reviewers all said they thought I had spelled the word wrong. But I was so sure I was right. I had even looked it up in a dictionary (I can’t say “the” because IContinue reading “Gantlet Vs Gauntlet”
Author Archives: Sandra Yeaman
Book Review: Say It Like Shakespeare
Tom Leech’s Say It Like Shakespeare presents communication tips for business people through comparison with Shakespeare’s language. While the subtitle of the book, The Bard’s Timeless Tips for Communication Success, misled me slightly, leading me to expect more direct references to communication within Shakespeare’s drama, Leech’s deft selection of examples made it clear his tips areContinue reading “Book Review: Say It Like Shakespeare”
Readers Write-Perseverance
Each month, The Sun magazine offers fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and photos in a black-and-white format without advertising. Each issue includes provocative ideas from people of science, religion, philosophy, the arts, or a combination. Each issue also includes Readers Write, a feature compiling nonfiction submissions from the magazine’s readers on an intentionally broad topic. Occasionally I submitContinue reading “Readers Write-Perseverance”
Eight-Week Challenge: Week One Results
Week one of my eight-week challenge is done. So far, so good. As a reminder, here are my goals for the eight-week challenge: eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories, spend one day a week reading the backlog of magazines sitting on the end table, and write at least 500 words per day for atContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Week One Results”
Homework: Conditioning
A prompt from 13 Steps to Awakening: “Sierra Softball Conditioning 2013.jpg” (CC BY-ND 2.0) Photo by Matthew Folsom Homework Think of how your negative conditioning harmed you in the past. Describe a few situations where you acted out of unconscious negative conditioning patterns and discuss what happened and why. Many years ago, I arrived in a new country forContinue reading “Homework: Conditioning”
Eight-Week Challenge
One of my favorite bloggers is Queen of Blank (real name, Danielle). Her blog is The Caffeinated Writer (from which I nicked the image for this post since I’m following her lead, but you can see that because it is part of the image). She’s on the East Coast, where I came from back inContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge”
Book Review: Wild Ginger
Anchee Min’s Wild Ginger relates a love story in the midst of turmoil told from the point of view of a teenage girl, Maple, who suffers at the hands of a bully, Hot Pepper, because Maple’s father was in a forced labor camp at the beginning of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. She meets the title character, WildContinue reading “Book Review: Wild Ginger”
IWSG
It’s Insecure Writer’s Support Group Wednesday. And this is my second post since joining. Last month I mentioned I was working on a synopsis of my memoir. It’s better, but not yet final, still on the back burner, not out of mind, but out of sight for now. Instead of continuing to plug away on it,Continue reading “IWSG”
Book Review: The Genie Who Had Wishes of HIs Own
Margaret Harmon’s 22 21st-century fables provide lessons about greed, hubris, jealousy, pride, procrastination, living through others, idealism, creativity, wasted opportunities, optimism vs pessimism, and the question of just what is success. Some are reminiscent of traditional fairy tales, especially three involving magic lamps and turbaned genies, “The Ingénue and the Genie,” “Freeing the Genie,” and “The Second-bestContinue reading “Book Review: The Genie Who Had Wishes of HIs Own”
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