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I agree, Upon returning usually implies that it will have been done by the time or just as the person returns, where as After my return suggests something getting done once the person returns.
Wow! I have no words! Your strength is truly inspiring. Constantly in my prayers, Judy!
You shouldn't be sorry, but thank you. I am blessed. I had a fine husband who believed in me so much that I was able to carry on after he died. He would love what I'm doing now.
Learning to carry on after the death of someone special is most chal...
I'm awfully sorry that everything you wrote is in past tense. Harold
Getting free access to the Oxford English Dictionary is amazing, Cartoon Professor. You deserve it.
How true. I've had to look at many things in life as challenges and opportunities for attitude adjustment, and this helps with all the things that go on in life.
Like when the air conditioner quite working yesterday afternoon when I was holding a...
Wow... Judy, I have to say your story is amazing. The relationships that we have in this life are so important to our growth and our happiness. Finding YOUR person is one of the strangest parts of life, but you seem to have found your person and y...
Jeantie, for me, perhaps the most important life change was meeting the man who was to become my second husband and marrying him two months later. The story of how we met and married is here.
Jack Vorfeld taught me a lot about life and love and a...
Getting free access a couple of days ago to the online edition of the 22-volume Oxford English Dictionary; and no, I wouldn't go back and decline the offer or demand that I be permitted to pay for it. -- Cartoon Professor
What was the most important life change that you ever experienced? Was it a good or a bad thing? How does it affect your daily activities? If you could go back and change that decision or situation, would you?
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- At 6:08pm on October 2, 2009,
Cartoon Professor said…
- Each time I look in on you I read your note about life changes and begin thinking about them.
- At 6:04pm on October 2, 2009,
Cartoon Professor said…
- I've started using your Woo-hoo. Fits my style.
- At 8:01am on July 27, 2009,
Cartoon Professor said…
- Thanks, Jeantie, and "Woo hoo!" back at you. But as a reward, please tell me how to pronounce your name. I do hate to mispronounce people's names, even if no one knows I do it.
- At 3:28pm on July 26, 2009,
Cartoon Professor said…
- jee AN tee? JEEN tee? jeen TEE? Would like very much to work/chat with you in connection with language and writing. -- Harold (Cartoon Professor)
PS -- My No. 1 area of specialization is English usage; secondarily, grammar; third, etymology; fourth, writing. Background: Speechwriter for three university presidents; writer for very large ad agency; professor of journalism; editorial writer, Soviet/Russian affairs specialist; foreign correspondent.
- At 3:24pm on July 26, 2009,
Cartoon Professor said…
- jee AN tee? JEEN tee? jeen TEE? Would like very much to work/chat with you in connection with language. -- Harold (Cartoon Professor)
PS -- My No. 1 area of specialization is English usage; secondarily, grammar; third, writing. Background: Speechwriter for three university presidents; writer for very large ad agency; professor of journalism; editorial writer, Soviet affairs specialist; foreign correspondent.
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- I love writing... I've written a few scripts, some short stories and even had a play I wrote put on at my church. I love the english language and love what words can do by way of affecting others.
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