by Sue Horner | Aug 20, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Readers love lists. Organizing long and possibly confusing information into a list helps readers scan and understand the information. But there are multiple ways to use punctuation in lists, as I was reminded while proofreading a client document that used all of them....
by Sue Horner | Aug 13, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
If you like the idea of spinning a wordy, over-the-top sentence that would be proud to launch a bad novel, you must know about the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. I first found and wrote about this amusing contest in 2009, although it began in 1982. As the site says,...
by Sue Horner | Aug 6, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Oh, hello! (Gets up and dusts herself off.) You may have noticed that I’ve fallen off the weekly blogging bandwagon. I’ll blame work, and summer, and maybe a lack of blog mojo. Instead of an original post, here are some of the smart, helpful, and sometimes...
by Sue Horner | Jul 22, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Making a tiny change in your own life that would fight climate change seems impossible. That may seem especially so after a week that saw catastrophic flooding in Europe, wildfires in Western Canada and the U.S., a tornado north of Toronto and more. Yet Starbucks...
by Sue Horner | Jul 16, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
As companies talk about calling all employees back to a physical office, they may have sparked what’s being called the “Great Resignation.” One in three professionals now working from home would look for a new job if they have to go back to the office, says...
by Sue Horner | Jul 9, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Is it just me, or do you find it astonishing that the first half of the year has hurtled past? If it’s July, then, it’s past time for my usual look back at the 10 most-viewed blog posts of the year. While the pandemic dominated the blog and our lives in 2020, I may...
by Sue Horner | Jun 18, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
“Side parts are out. Tight pants are over. And newsletters are officially back.” I laughed at that comment in Business 2 Community, riffing on the recent “cheugy” word wars. It seems Gen Zs (born 1997–2015) have decreed items supposedly loved by Millennials (born...
by Sue Horner | Jun 13, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
They weren’t hugged, even though some were as young as three. They weren’t comforted at being separated from their families. They weren’t fed properly or protected from abuse. And at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., 215 Indigenous children were buried in...
by Sue Horner | May 28, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
It’s not about me. That’s what I’ve realized about adding “she/her” to my profiles on LinkedIn, X, Zoom and elsewhere. Here’s why. The pronouns we use when speaking of someone often imply a gender, such as “she” or “her” to refer to a woman or girl....
by Sue Horner | May 20, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Several times, I’ve taken part in a fundraising 5K event called Push for Your Tush. As usual with such events, I had to sign a release – actually a “RELEASE, WAIVER and INDEMNITY AGREEMENT,” in all caps every time it is mentioned – for the organizer, Colorectal...
