Monthly Archives: February 2010

wednesday’s word

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Deanna

This week, another snip from my childhood. In second grade I learned this word: squint. I found out I had been doing it. My dear teacher, Mrs. Love (I couldn’t have made that up), noticed how my face scrunched during math time, as I tried to make out problems on the board. She reported this … Continue reading →

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happy portion

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Deanna

For a few years I tried to write prettier – to add flourishes that would astound. I guess I didn’t think I would run into that purple prose problem, because I had tended at first to write so sparsely. Surely, I thought, I could only strengthen my prose by gazing often into gilded, trickled springs … Continue reading →

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to begin again, again

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Deanna

We have bid farewell to the first month of 2010. I’ve started saying twenty-ten. I think someone told me to – I’m not sure. Anyway, it’s easier. Our first decade had to turn out as the 2000s. While a hundred years earlier people could easily say nineteen-oh-one, nineteen-aught-two, etc., twenty-oh-one wouldn’t have rolled off the … Continue reading →

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