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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.” –...
by Sue Horner | Aug 26, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
After spending three weeks in academia, with no time to read newspapers or watch the news, let alone be active on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and such, it’s been interesting getting (slowly) back into the swing of things. Today, in between researching topics on...
by Sue Horner | Aug 21, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Each day has been incredibly long, but three weeks here at Royal Roads University have indeed gone fairly quickly, as many predicted. Now my bags are packed, and the cab will arrive in about 20 minutes to take me and a few of my classmates to the airport. Home, here...
by Sue Horner | Aug 15, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Whee! My husband was able to arrange work in Vancouver this week, with a side trip to Victoria over the weekend to spring me from the campus on Friday (I went “over the wall” as my classmate Max called it). Besides being happy to see him and another couple...
by Sue Horner | Aug 8, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Aren’t peacocks handsome birds? Well, the males anyway. I love the brilliant blues and greens of their feathers. And there are plenty of these creatures strutting around the grounds of Royal Roads University. Week two of my three-week residency starts tomorrow,...
