Immutable (ih-MYOO-tuh-bul) – from the Latin – means unchanging through time, unalterable. Example (as used by John Irving in A Widow for One Year): “Eddie vowed that he would try to make it up to the child, to reassure her that everything she’d ever been told about her dead brothers was immutable.”
By Early To Rise | Mon, Jun 6, 2011
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By Lori Allen | Mon, Jun 6, 2011
If you like taking pictures, you can create a second income stream by selling those pictures to stock photo agencies. It doesn’t require years of experience. And it’s fun. Take these three photos for instance. Of the three, which would you guess would be more salable? If you answered “the business woman with the orange background,” you’re right. [...]
By Early To Rise | Mon, Jun 6, 2011
If you like taking pictures, you can create a second income stream by selling those pictures to stock photo agencies.
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Jun 4, 2011
In his book "Failing Forward," John C. Maxwell tells the story of Samuel Langley, the man who should have invented the airplane.
By Don Hauptman | Fri, Jun 3, 2011
Consider these comments, found online: “All the kits in this bundle are so fun.” “Why is college so fun? No parents!” “How fun is your workplace?” In these quotations, the word fun, a noun, is used as if it were an adjective. It’s not good English. Why do people do it? [...]
By Julie Broad | Fri, Jun 3, 2011
Have you ever been writing an e-mail or a report – pouring your heart and soul into each and every word – when, POOF, it vanishes? Maybe it was a computer glitch or a wrong keystroke. In any case, your work is gone. And you can’t retrieve it. Well, imagine if you’d been working on that [...]
By Early To Rise | Fri, Jun 3, 2011
Have you ever been writing an e-mail or a report - pouring your heart and soul into each and every word - when, POOF, it vanishes?
By Early To Rise | Thu, Jun 2, 2011
Apostasy (uh-POS-tuh-see) – from the Greek for “withdrawing” – is a total desertion of or departure from one’s religion, principles, party, cause, etc. Example (as used by Anthony Julius in a NYT review of Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza): “The Egyptian Jewish community of the late Middle Ages, afflicted by [...]
By John Forde | Thu, Jun 2, 2011
“Brain-writing” is not my term. But we’re going to make it our own by revising it a little to make it more productive… You brainstorm to get ideas when you have none. Ideally, you do so in a group. So you can feed off each other. So you can legitimize sitting around drinking coffee. So you [...]
By Early To Rise | Mon, Jun 6, 2011
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