by Sue Horner | Nov 1, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
(<— Real dog, fake squirrel) Quite a while ago, an association I belong to created some new marketing material. Prominent on what really was a good-looking piece was a stock photo of a group of people, basically standing in for those of us who are actual...
by Sue Horner | Oct 19, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
I had been mulling over writing here about the times I was surprised, pleased and even floored to discover someone had (secretly) been reading this blog, and I had no idea because they never commented. Just last week, a new IABC contact mentioned that something I had...
by Sue Horner | Oct 12, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
I have borrowed shamelessly from the ever-thoughtful Patti Digh (“What would I be doing today if I only had 37 days to live?”) for the title of this post. It references her own (sorry, no longer online) about National Coming Out Day, first celebrated in...
by Sue Horner | Oct 10, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
It being Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, I am grateful for many things: love, friendship, family, work, health and happiness. But you know what else I truly appreciate? Those creative folks at Sesame Street. Yes, they have done it again, with a clever and funny parody...
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by Sue Horner | Oct 6, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Fall is that exciting time of year (for word nerds) when The Oxford American Dictionary adds new words and phrases — this year, 2,000 of them! What’s not to like about the list? It includes abbreviations now recognized as words, like BFF (best friends...
by Sue Horner | Oct 1, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
It’s October, and Halloween costumes and decorations have been in the stores for weeks. What better time to talk about scary things? And by that I mean, doing what scares you. Over dinner last night, one of my friends confessed that she is afraid of doing...
by Sue Horner | Sep 24, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
What makes me crazy Are apostrophes in signs. Know the one’s I mean? That is my haiku in honour of National Punctuation Day, September 24. (OK, I know an apostrophe is not punctuation, so it’s more of a haiku in honour of general grammatical attention to detail,...
by Sue Horner | Sep 15, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
As the online portion of my two-year Professional Communications program cranks up, the biggest struggle is not fitting the work into my day or evening. No, it’s losing the feeling of competence I used to have. I’ve been running my own business for close...
by Sue Horner | Sep 7, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
While about two weeks remain before summer is officially over, you and I both know that if the calendar says September, summer is done. At least, that’s the case pretty much anywhere in Canada. So I’m already a little sad about that. Summer has always been...
by Sue Horner | Sep 6, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
I love reading the expressive ways other people have found to make a point. Here are my latest finds (the parts I particularly like are in bold): • “I sometimes think of cancer as a long and difficult journey, a quest out of Tolkien, or a dark waltz.” –...
