题目Anyone can write a baby poem,and everyone enjoys reading them,young and old.Baby shower(婴儿洗礼) poems can have rhythm and rhyme,but they certainly don't have to.Poems can be either long or short,but short is probably best for your typical baby shower needs.You...
Personally, I am a fan of simply signing “best wishes”, but am beginning to doubt my choice as I have a lot of ESL students who tend to copy my signature and this tends to be a bit too greeting card-like for more formal correspondence. So it was with interest that I landed on y...
She had invented a mode of being as unrelated to the past as the code on a computer punch card. She took me from the depressing world of my parents and made me funny and true. And suddenly, we were out of school and she revised what I’d assumed was a permanent code of nihilism a...
We had to have a baby shower in the hospital, and Grandma Ward came, despite her distaste for hospitals. Another sentiment we shared. Weeks inched by. Then a month. Tough time. I went to work, and then straight to the hospital, every single day. It was depressing. One day, my wife ...
One card short of a full deck Not playing with a full deck Not the brightest bulb in the pack. The communication skills of an alarm clock. Bad luck when it comes to thinking. The same sense of direction as Christopher Columbus.
All Casey wanted was to feel safe in the world and to shower love on a family of her making. She really wasn’t asking for much, not considering how hard she was willing to work for what she believed in. Unfortunately, she and her husband were a “mismatched pair.” Later Casey also...
a little yellow square in the dark. Then it winked out. I figured they were in there, running around like headless poultry, packing and cussing, scared to death that any minute I’d start blasting the windows. I didn’t even own a gun at the moment. I owned a card room downtown....
These cards are amazing! If I had seen them when I was a young musician, I would have insisted the band all take on a different card/character as a persona, and this led to the idea of having the story be about a band. Jenn (with two n’s) is based on who I was as a naï...
a我们一直送生日贺卡给他 We deliver the birthday card to give him continuously [translate] a有点挑剔又追求完美 A little nitpicks pursues perfectly [translate] a星期天我总是和朋友们一起逛街 正在翻译,请等待... [translate] a草你妈 安 The grass you the mother is peaceful [translate] a他需要...
It's hard to know when to "show, don't tell" in writing. This writing technique, along with show don't tell examples, makes a big difference.