In an effort to keep up with the many new phrases and their uses during the pandemic, today’s words include data-driven, flatten the curve, and in an abundance of caution. Data-driven: As an educator, since No Child Left Behind was enacted under the Bush Administration, data-driven as come to mean using the results of standardized…
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The Intrusion of COVID Vocabulary: What are these words and phrases?
At the beginning…who knew? Over these months, I have been recording, sequentially, new phrases and words that, while “real words,” the concepts were either utilized in a different context or had not been previously in common usage. COVID 19: The name of this disease is coronavirus disease 2019, now abbreviated as COVID-19. In COVID -19,…
Daily Posts
I have been overwhelmed with travel and many family activities since May 1. I finally have my daughter’s wedding behind me and a trip to the west coast and Hawaii over. Today I resolved to get back into a grove of writing each day. When my mind was lazy but my will was strong I…
Daily Prompt: Juxtapose
via Daily Prompt: Juxtapose Sunrise. Sunset. The day starts anew in the morning, even if we don’t rise to see the beauty of the morning. The day ends each evening, even with the twinkling of the stars and the glow of the moon. The collage of these times juxtapose the cycles of our life, a…
Infect our Climate
via Daily Prompt: Infect Climate develops over long periods of time and is impacted by patterns of variation in both measurable elements and theoretical concepts. The application of the term climate to the emotional aspects of a country is less documented historically but has emerged as a factor in personal well-being and national identity. The…
Thin and Slim
via Daily Prompt: Thin Life is full of choices but disguised as societal impressions or norms open to discussion. Should women be “thin” or “slim?” Do I read a slim volume of poetry or a novel of great import? My options are slim or none. His lies were thinly disguised. Those pants would be better…
Pace
via Daily Prompt: Rapid As I rise each day I drag myself from sleep reaching for the newness of the day and my “to be done” list, referred to years ago as my “to do” list which was entirely aspirational as I worked usually ten hours a day, had three children, and took care of…
Flaunt
via Daily Prompt: Flaunt Flaunt the rules, taunt the mores, I can’t but jaunt along and live life confidant of my wants.
Sludge
via Daily Prompt: Sludge The media take “pen” in hand, hold camera to eye, adjust to a sense of the new reality each morning and attempt to dog-paddle through the sludge passing for current events of the day. In years past it was noble to expose sleaze and rottenness, not just wallow in the ooze…
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