by Karen Smith | Aug 3, 2021 | Blog
Way back in the 1990s, it became de rigueur for businesses to exhort their wage slaves into giving 110 percent to the job. I always loathed that expectation as well as its phrasing. When not wallowing in the magic of word salads, I tend toward the literal and logical....
by Karen Smith | Jul 27, 2021 | Blog
Expectations. We try to live up or down to them. Expectations set standards that real life often adjusts for us, whether we will it not not. There’s nothing quite like the high of exceeded expectations and nothing quite like the disappointment of falling...
by Karen Smith | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog
I was a vendor at the 2021 Imaginarium held at the Holiday Inn Louisville East in Louisville, Kentucky from June 9 through 11. Without really knowing what I was doing, even though it was the third time I’d participated as a vendor in this (usually) annual event,...
by Karen Smith | Jul 6, 2021 | Blog
Perusing my feed in Reddit, one person posted a question as to whether freelancing resists age discrimination, ageism being a common obstacle faced by many workers in their 40s and 50s (or older) looking for new employment. The overwhelming response agrees that older...
by Karen Smith | Jun 29, 2021 | Blog
People don’t use proper grammar when speaking. True, that.This is why, when editing a writer’s manuscript, I correct little if any of the grammar in dialogue. What I will do is highlight the grammatically incorrect phrase and explain in a margin note what...
by Karen Smith | Jun 15, 2021 | Blog
Common speech and, often, writing use the verbs “can” and “will” interchangeably, which one should not. They don’t mean the same thing. “Can” refers to ability. If you can replace “can” with “is/are able...
