by Sue Horner | Jan 25, 2023 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
This may be a new year, but it’s the same old, same old when it comes to wordy, baffling language. And you’ll find lots of that in any company’s Terms of Use. Terms of Use should be easy to read, don’t you think? And making them easy is just...
by Sue Horner | Jan 16, 2023 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
A new year, a new series of social media posts you might have missed, once again all about writing. Yes, you could say that is a particular interest of mine. There’s some advice about getting back into writing after the holidays, tips to be a better writer, what...
by Sue Horner | Jan 9, 2023 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
In 2022, we finally moved past the pandemic’s domination of the words people searched for online. We’re not out of the pandemic woods yet, of course, and we’re still talking about it. But we’re also looking up and talking about a range of other things going on in our...
by Sue Horner | Dec 30, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
The flurry of end-of-year lists started even before last week. So as 2022 comes to an end (finally!), here’s my last post of the year: The 10 most-viewed posts on my blog in 2022. 1. Like many (you?), I was swept up in the early days of the word craze that is Wordle....
by Sue Horner | Dec 22, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
In December 2016, Facebook memories showed me a photo of my black Lab, Jake, staring at my son’s Christmas stocking. That photo was taken during what turned out to be Jake’s last Christmas. With the famous clarity of hindsight, I thought, and wrote about,...
by Sue Horner | Dec 20, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog, Writing samples
This year, I had the privilege of writing for the 80,000+ mostly retired members of RTOERO and their magazine, Renaissance. RTOERO has its roots in the Ontario Teachers’ Federation although not all members are teachers. They work in or are retired from the...
by Sue Horner | Dec 9, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
This last month of the year, many of us are getting ready for family gatherings. Some have lost or are estranged from loved ones. Some just don’t have the heart after the past few years. Maybe it all reminds you, as it does me, that life is short. That reminder...
by Sue Horner | Dec 2, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Tomorrow is the first Saturday in December, and that’s National Christmas Tree Day. It’s a perfect day to find out facts about, well, Christmas trees. I’m taking you back to the blog vault for “Fun things to know about Christmas trees.” The post shares an...
by Sue Horner | Nov 23, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
In the old days, a handshake was your contract. Today, the hands involved belong to lawyers, and they are all over the simplest of contracts. Unfortunately, as Ohio Judge Mark P. Painter says, “Most legal writing is atrocious.” Forget short, crisp sentences. One...
by Sue Horner | Nov 15, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Hello friend, it’s time for another roundup of links you might have missed from posts I’ve shared on social media. This time, our focus is email and our sponsor is Elon Musk. Well, he doesn’t know it. But Twitter’s new overlord inspired me to share a collection...
