Here is my example of that forced choice of pronoun becoming a dilemma. In 1996, I wrote a poem called “The Poet.” It imagines a person writing in a place where their work might never have a chance to become known—not to be published, certainly not to be translated. Perhaps this w...
What is acoordinating conjunction? Acoordinating conjunction, also called acoordinate conjunction, is a conjunction that is used to connect words, phrases, clauses, and sentences together. For example, the wordandis a coordinating conjunction in the sentenceAaron speaks English and Scottish. Coordinati...
For longer verbs, we only double the last constant if the verb ends inconsonant-vowel-consonantand the last syllable is stressed. For example, the past participle ofomitisomittedbut the past participle ofdepositisdeposited. Verbs that follow these rules are calledregular verbs. The past participle...
Limerick is also the name of a city in Ireland, and it’s commonly believed that the poem form called a limerick is derived from Ireland. However, limericks weren’t associated with Ireland until the early 1700s, when soldiers brought the rhymes home. This was a few years after Charles Pe...
Claude 3.5 Haiku was announced on October 22, 2024. Can Claude use a computer independently? Yes. Anthropic rolled out computer use functionality for Claude in October 2024, allowing developers to employ Claude to perform tasks on a computer in the same way a human user would — by clicking,...
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. The Reeuwijkse Plassen is a lake area in the West of The Netherlands. Archive The Netherlands Shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.Click the picture for a bigger version Rate this: Feel free to share this post! Twitter Facebook...
Even crazier, the sky was no longer its familiar, comforting shade of ashen gray: instead, the sky wasblue! (Yes, now that you mention it, the author of today's haikushouldhave taken a picture of that.) Yesterday afternoon, there was no doubt a mad scramble in elementary schools through...
·Up until a couple of years ago, Utah required bars and restaurants to install a "Zion curtain," a partition that separated a bartended from his or her customers. The Zion curtain is no longer required; however, new bars and restaurantsarerequired to mix drinks in a separate part of the...
Also known as sudden fiction, these stories are perfect for filling a spare two to five minutes. They can be read quickly yet provide a complete reading experience. Some of them will give you as much to think about as a much longer story....
“Hm. Well, I guess I don’t laugh so much because after a while you find out that some things don’t laugh back. And after a longer while, after too many things don’t laugh back, you just get tired.” “Too tired to laugh?” ...