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- A remembrance of fathers. "Every guest we had at dinner tonight has a father who has already departed." orestn.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/a-r… 1 year ago
- Forgiving is something that happens when you choose it orestn.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/for… 1 year ago
- Persuasive Speaking – Final Approach to Advanced Communicator Gold orestn.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/per… https://t.co/PUcnMeGWa9 1 year ago
- "I got out of my car slowly, timing it so that I might catch her after she got out of her car and say hi before she… orestn.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/i-k… 1 year ago
- The Force Awakens. "Han Solo and Princess Leia have aged in the intervening years. So have I." orestn.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/the… 1 year ago
- An epiphany night orestn.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/an-… 1 year ago
- @mystjoes What changes need to be made so that no elderly patient in Emergency ever has to wait for an hour to have a soiled diaper changed? 2 years ago
- @GrantRants “permit business to bring talent from out Niagara” Why go outside region to tap into talent? Plenty of local talent to tap into. 3 years ago
- "On a tight budget" wp.me/p1rT21-wT Bruce Wayne gets an alert, a bank robbery is in progress. He changes into his Batman outfit and… 3 years ago
- The Way of the Student. wp.me/p1rT21-wM Departing Garden City Toastmasters member speaks about The Way of the Student. 3 years ago
- A road less travelled. wp.me/p1rT21-wB "Driving back from Niagara Falls and I decided to take a different route than I usually take.… 3 years ago
- Celebrating Toastmasters wp.me/p1rT21-wh "I got my first video blog episode out. I want this experiment to be something that is fun,… 3 years ago
- Canada Day teaser. "We made a side trip to Bobcaygeon to see the locks and to enjoy some Kawartha Lakes ice cream… wp.me/p1rT21-vS 3 years ago
- Paucisyllabism. wp.me/p1rT21-vJ Why do people use the word "utilize" when they can utilize the word "use"? 4 years ago
- GPS Monologue. wp.me/p1rT21-vF Sometimes the GPS can be so stubborn. 4 years ago
- MiniWriMo: Day 1. wp.me/p1rT21-vA "You won't make any points with the captain by trying to pick up his woman." "His woman? Her? How… 4 years ago
- The Garden City Shake wp.me/p1rT21-vp Garden City Toastmasters is not the first club to make a Harlem Shake video... but our video… 4 years ago
- Flashback wp.me/p1rT21-v2 "I saw your picture in my high school yearbook, I thought, "Could this really be you?" That face - it's… 4 years ago
- Race for Space. wp.me/p1rT21-uT Toastmaster Andrew Rader - "I want to go to space because... you have to go through space to get to… 4 years ago
- The pins are out. wp.me/p1rT21-uJ Is this how a Borg feels when it becomes de-assimilated? 4 years ago
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Paucisyllabism
Today’s writing prompt at Daily Post is No, Thank You. If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why? I’ve developed a dislike for use of the word “utilize” instead of its shorter … Continue reading
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Tagged Communications, Creative writing, Daily Post, Dictionaries, DPchallenge, Sentence (law), Vocabulary Lists, Word, Writers Resources, writing, Writing Exercises
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MiniWriMo: Day 1
After my first shot at the NaNoWriMo last fall I had the idea to do a MiniWriMo as a follow up. I just did a google on the term MiniWriMo. What turned up was a bunch of hits on NaNoWriMo … Continue reading
