As a staunch ally of people who don’t look like me, I was too shocked to come up with anything more pointed.
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As a staunch ally of people who don’t look like me, I was too shocked to come up with anything more pointed.
Continue readingWow! It’s been 10 years since I started this grand adventure. Hard to believe, as it seems like just yesterday when I began what I thought would be a humourous grammar blog for online language junkies.
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Photos tell the tale – our hair salon experts sure know how to rescue us from the depths of hair despair! <– wordplay courtesy of my husband John Boone 😅
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Just when you might start to doubt humankind…
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Confession: I’ve already procrastinated writing this blog post several times. All right, many times. But I’m ready now! I swear!
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My ChatGPT pal tells us how terrified – or not – we should be.
Continue readingMy headline sums up the views of George Conway (co-founder of The Lincoln Project) talking with The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell in the YouTube video below.
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What do you see when you look at this image?
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“The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza came into effect Sunday, halting more than 15 months of devastating war…” – The Washington Post, Jan. 19, 2025
All of that statement is true except for one word: “war.”
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This isn’t a synopsis of the Bob Dylan movie that recently opened on Christmas Day. But I’d like to tell you how it affected me.
Continue readingWriting, Blogging, and Books by Ellie Presner
"And where did you learn the art of not lasting long?" "Here", you answered
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