Famous Quotes

Books The book Paul Clifford is the source of the phrase “It was a dark and stormy night”.  The full first opening line of the book is: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up…

Text Fragments

(Refer to the Writing Notes post for word usage and to Food Vocabulary for food-related words and terms.  Also see Remnants and Famous Quotes.) Interesting Words Contronyms A contronym is a word that has opposite meanings.  For example, when Michael Jackson said that he was ‘bad’ in his video “Bad”, he meant that he was really…

Snap Judgment

Lemonade – Snap #318 | Snap Judgment. Snap Judgment: always engaging, memorable stories, pushes us outside our comfort zones – but not in the squirm-inducing fashion of TV sitcoms with their cheap tricks.