Unspoken Language ( Archived) (10)

Dorrie,

I still wish I had even a wee bit of your talent with words and the economic use of them. Then, to be able to stir such emotion with them is TRUE TALENT!!

Have a beautiful day!

J

I think along these lines too

Good poem by the way

Good for you: sticking to your guns with your English teacher!!! (Isn't there a commonly used phrase that goes something like "those who can DO, and those who can't teach?")

You are more forgiving than I, because I'd have looked that b**ch up and said (Or maybe worse!!!)

I was once involved in marketing short stories for a client of mine. His work was largely for the outdoor press, and I found out that editors do not necessarily have a clue, either. One story was returned from an editor who said "chamomile" was not an herb that readers would recognize and so the author needed to change the references to a more readily recognized herb!!!! I got a huge laugh out of that "editorial comment," and was only barely able to refrain from writing back to ask the editor if his magazine audience was limited to special ed. or some such! That same story was indeed published by a more prominant magazine with a much larger circulation.

Holding fast to your 'splanin' certainly benefitted those of us here who are your fans, expecially me & Don (and we're both published authors, and therefore SHOULD have a clue!)

Keep that marvelous keyboard of yours going, lady!

J