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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Defining Moments: Insights Into This Soul-Filled Sistah And How I Redefined Myself

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Go figure. Not even getting beat down by the crap that life throws at you motivated me to put pen to paper. It took my hanging out with a 'sistah'. Let me be more specific - getting trashed with my sistah - that I knew I had to write it down! A Self Exorcism if you will! And all over - ugh, LOVE! My definition of "sista" is Smart -Innovative - Selfless-Tolerant -Assertive & Kick-ass! (So, it doesn't spell it right -- you know what I mean!) This book is special to me and my dreams, so $1 for each book sold will be donated to each of the following non-profit organizations that I am working with: The Youth Music Exchange (http://youthmusicexchange.org), Just Tell Foundation (http://justtell.org), The Comicbook Project (http://comicbookproject.org), Independent Commission On Public Education (http://icope.org), and the Center for Educational Pathways (http://edpath.org)

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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words

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Who knew that the great country of Canada is named for a mistake? How about "bedswerver," the best Elizabethan insult to hurl at a cheating boyfriend? By exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, readers are lured by language and entangled in etymologies. Author Phil Cousineau takes us on a tour into the obscure territory of word origins with great erudition and endearing curiosity. The English poet W. H. Auden was once asked to teach a poetry class, and when 200 students applied to study with him, he only had room for 20 of them. When asked how he chose his students, he said he picked the ones who actually loved words. So too, with this book — it takes a special wordcatcher to create a treasure chest of remarkable words and their origins, and any word lover will relish the stories that Cousineau has discovered.