Two of the top ten reasons to travel to Moldova are in caves. Maybe that should be three since reason number ten includes two underground wine cellars, Cricova and Milesti Mici. The other cave destination is a monastery. This post is one in a series of short posts including the number 10 in the firstContinue reading “M is for Ten in Moldova”
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Common Issues in Manuscripts Requiring Correction: #9 British vs American Spelling
This is the ninth in a series of posts to address common issues in manuscripts with my suggestions for how writers can improve their manuscripts before turning them over to agents, editors, and the many other individuals involved in the process of turning a manuscript into a book. #9 Preferred Spelling Choices, Per Merriam-Webster CommonContinue reading “Common Issues in Manuscripts Requiring Correction: #9 British vs American Spelling”
L is for Ten in London
There are few addresses more recognizable than Number 10 Downing Street. Maybe 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But there is something magnetic about the London address that drew me there as soon as I arrived at Heathrow. This post is one in a series of short posts including the number 10 in the first sentence, a requirementContinue reading “L is for Ten in London”
K is for Ten in Korea
Ten hours wasn’t long enough to see anything in Korea, especially at night. At least not for a single woman who didn’t speak Korean and was on her own. This post is one in a series of short posts including the number 10 in the first sentence, a requirement of the San Diego Writers andContinue reading “K is for Ten in Korea”
J is for Ten in Japan
By the time I turned ten, I had read every book about Japan in my school library and the children’s section of the city library. I was determined to travel there some day. It took 16 more years for that dream to come true. This post is one in a series of short posts includingContinue reading “J is for Ten in Japan”
I is for Ten in Iran
I learned in Iran that referring to the future requires only three terms: tomorrow, after tomorrow, and in ten days. For the first year there, I persisted in behaving those terms meant the same thing as their English equivalents. Tomorrow to me meant the day after today. And after tomorrow meant a day or twoContinue reading “I is for Ten in Iran”
H is for Ten in Haiti
Haiti is in the top ten on the Global Slavery Index. Many of those in slavery in Haiti are children of poor families whose parents have given them to a host family with more resources, based on the assumption that their children’s lives will be better, with a possibility of receiving an education and goodContinue reading “H is for Ten in Haiti”
G is for Ten in Germany
Baden-Württemberg, the second largest of the ten German states that made up former West Germany, was the home of my maternal grandfather’s ancestors. I’ll bet the folks back there were scandalized when his father, my great-grandfather, returned from Iowa to pick up his girlfriend, eventually my great-grandmother, but he refused to marry her before theyContinue reading “G is for Ten in Germany”
F is for Ten in Fargo
I spent my childhood across the Red River of the North from Fargo, a city I had thought would always be on the bottom of the ten US cities others would never want to visit. I’m not sure how much the Cohn brothers’ movie Fargo had to do with the exceptional changes the city hasContinue reading “F is for Ten in Fargo”
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