by Linda | Apr 27, 2017 | Authors
Über, borrowed from the German, is a prefix that crowns a noun: A geek becomes an uber-geek, a runway fashion queen becomes an uber-model. “An uber building came about…an enormous quasi-crystalline structure that reached out multicolored limbs of...
by Linda | Apr 25, 2017 | Authors
What I really want to write about is the book I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, The Superior Person’s Book of Words, but neither the title, the author’s name, Peter Bowler, nor the publisher’s handle, David R. Godine, begin with a...
by Linda | Apr 23, 2017 | Authors
On Monday morning, April 3rd, the day my brother-in-law died, I was scanning through our word book collection and came upon two copies of the The Superior Person’s Book of Words by Peter Bowler. I extracted the one inscribed by Corinne Hayak, a LaConner Regional...
by Linda | Apr 23, 2017 | Authors
Resistance is the theme Red Wheelbarrow Writers selected as its blog topic for 2017—an apt response for this time of political tumult. Blog coordinator Di Woods e-blasted a plea for members to sign up for a blog slot. “Resist,” she began, and included a...
by Linda | Apr 23, 2017 | Authors
I turned to my wife Amory’s collection of alphabet books—200 and counting—to see what authors had chosen for their Q words, the 17th letter of our alphabet. A beautiful book called Bembo’s Zoo by Brazilian-born artist Robert de Vicq de Cumptich cleverly represented...
