Mining for missions
When it came time to retire, Yukoners Keith and Betty Dye decided it was time to start the hands-on work of placer mining. For six […]
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Begin, then begin again!
That’s right; the beginning (where else to start?). Let’s look at some creative, perhaps unconventional ways to begin sentences:
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Speed bumps 101
Our neighbourhood has speed bumps (and more than a few potholes) that make slow driving an easy choice. As annoying as they may be, at
Knowing when to begin again
If you were to write about the northern hairy-nosed wombat, each paragraph would reveal something new about it. A paragraph contains one facet of a
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Verb Tents
(and why the spellchecker is not always your friend) How do you count butterflies? There are an estimated 20,000 species worldwide. And can you fathom
SOS
…—… Sure of Sinking! Save Our Ship! (and our souls!): the international distress symbol was thought to mean any of these, but its meaning, in
Hot Off the Press: A Cold Tale
Talking at the Woodpile This story won first prize for fiction at this year’s Authors on Eighth. See the story on this page. In the
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It’s not just a part of it; it’s the heart of it
The heart continues to inspire us: it is the cornerstone of religious thought, the muse for artistic expression and the stuff—practical and otherwise—from which love stories are born.
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; (No, I’m not winking at you.)
The semicolon has three major functions: to link thematically related thoughts, to introduce conjunctions or transitional phrases and to avoid confusion in lists.
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The Language of Shakespeare Sucks
The English language sucks! I hate it! I hate it so much! Consider the word vacuum: Why isn’t it vacyoom with a “y” and an
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The colon: Abracadabra!
Rising just above the horizon, the moon appears larger than it actually is, much larger than when it’s overhead. The colon is like that—abracadabra!—appearing in a way that has a sometimes-magical affect.
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