by Barbara Dee | Apr 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dialogue, YES. Dialect, NO. “Wellya dun lit up dat barn wit ya stoopidutee.” Trying to write using phonetic spellings in order to show a speaker’s dialect causes more problems than it’s worth. Even though Mark Twain used it in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it...
by Barbara Dee | Dec 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
From Neil Goeppinger Hello, Barbara, I was interviewed by CBS News December 7th as part of a CBS news story, and I supplied them with lots of pictures and some videos of my bell collection. They found me through my book. Yesterday, they emailed me, asking for a...
by Barbara Dee | Dec 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
The space that a thought takes up is…who the heck knows? As far as we understand, a thought is not tangible, yet everyone agrees there is such a thing! Here are three things I do understand about thoughts. First, thoughts are almost always “automatic.” If you stood...
by Barbara Dee | Dec 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
In A Boston Marathon Journey, Jackie Kellner uses her detailed running logs and personal stories to demonstrate how she, an ordinary woman, creates an extraordinary life, using the simple and natural act of running. The readers’ double-take is that she still does...
by Barbara Dee | Dec 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sometimes I wonder if grammatical and punctuation errors will become accepted because their use is so commonplace now that so many people can self-publish on websites, blogs, e-newsletters and more. I hope not. We need to preserve proper grammar in the English...
by Barbara Dee | Nov 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
“The American roadtrip is truly classic: a signature adventure with friends, family, or alone, it was once deemed impossible until only the last century. With the vast benefits that a roadtrip offers, along with advancements in technology and improvements in roads and...
