Barbara Ardinger's Blog
August 17, 2017
The Truth About Why We Forget
April 29, 2017
The Whole Truth about the Semicolon
March 23, 2017
Happy Springtime!
January 21, 2017
Creating My Yearly Collage
At noon last Sunday I cleared everything off my table. Next I got out the plastic folder in which I keep images torn from magazines and catalogs, pictures of cats, and fancy colored paper. Then I found my elementary school-size glue stick, a couple pairs of scissors, and my collection of sparkly stickers. Four hours later, I finished my 2017 collage. I started making these yearly collages in 1994, when my friend Suzan called together a group of her friends to make goal boards. We all brought out own poster board, and Suzan had a big pile of (mostly business) magazines on her floor. She directed us to search through them for images of goals we wanted to meet and things we wanted to acquire in 1994. Here���s my first goal board. It���s the only one that has corners.
November 21, 2016
A Wicked Witch Discovers Gratitude
November 4, 2016
Blogorrhea–it’s fun to make up new words
October 5, 2016
“Adverbs are radioactive.”
September 21, 2016
Fussbudget Editor
As I edit, I am fairly conservative about our language. I believe that we should respect its history and construction. That is, if there's already a word that works, it may not be necessary to make up a new one (unless we do it for a specific purpose). Some years ago, for example, I campaigned on a listserv against the word "gaialog." Using this stupid word instead of "dialog" to indicate women talking made me crazy.