It’s or its? It’s easy.

In the last few weeks of internet reading, I’ve come across a three-letter mistake that seems to be everywhere.

Do you use “its” or “it’s”?  The Grammar nazi wants to help out with a simple explanation.

Short, sweet and loose

Sorry if I lured you into reading under false and salacious pretenses.  Actually, that’s not true.  I did it on purpose.  But keep reading.  The post is what’s short and hopefully sweet, but what’s loose? 

Don’t dangle your participle!

It might be amusing to come into a room and gasp, “Someone in this room has a dangling participle”, then observe who looks where.  However suggestive it might sound, a dangling participle is only a crime against grammar, not a jail-able offense, although grammar nazis may disagree.

Grammar nazi sightings–signs of the times

I haven’t posted any Grammar nazi sightings for some time, which doesn’t mean I haven’t spotted any.  These three may not all be strictly grammar, but they’re certainly related to how to write precisely–or not.

Allergies–(The Grammar nazi has them.)

The Grammar nazi has been quiescent for some time.  No glaring misuses of the language have impinged upon her delicate ears or thrust themselves before her limpid gaze.  But then this morning, she read the following two sentences and had a Grammar nazi flare-up.

Nuts about grammar! (for Doug)

I haven’t posted a Grammar nazi post for a long time but when this popped up on my Facebook page, I had to post it once I’d stopped laughing.    All I can say is that this is a difference worth knowing!!!  Who says grammar doesn’t matter?  Doug, this played  perfectly in to your Friday Fictioneers story.  And for anyone who would like to know what I’m talking about and would enjoy some stellar writing, here you go…http://ironwoodwind.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/size-matters/.

A plethora of poetry

For some reason I seem to have poetry on the brain, so just for fun, here are four different poems types.

Five haiku

Sitting on the porch
In a red shirt, drinking tea
Hummingbird zooms close

We walk hand in hand
By the calm lake in moonlight
Ankles scratched by grass

In my heart’s eye you
Are still young, running swiftly
On the rugby pitch

We lie on our backs
Seeing shapes in the clouds
The wind blows gently

Fireflies blinking
Above the lawn in the dark
Childhood memories

Sign up right here

Not long ago I did a post on different amusing signs I’ve seen while traveling (http://sustainabilitea.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/signs-of-the-times-or-something-2/).  After our last trip, I have a few more for your viewing, or reading, enjoyment.  A good laugh never goes amiss!  I hope to leave you LOL at least once.  And speaking of laughter, here are a few quotes about laughter just to get things started.

Monday mishmash and rabbit trails

While I was tossing about possible blog posts this afternoon, my mind went into mental free fall, wandering every which way.  (Note to self: a good day to remember that not all who wander are lost.)  My brain’s a mishmash of “stuff” today–lists for Megan going to school at the end of the month, lists for vacation (almost here), lists of food to buy for a week of being in the mountains with town a long, difficult drive away, trying to remember everything I don’t want to forget long enough to write it down.  Wishing I could just transport ala Star Trek from Cleveland to Naperville to Wyoming with everything I needed; then relax and do only things I want to do.  Every time I sit down to take a break, before my seat touches the chair, I think of seven more things I need to do, hop up again and collect something, start another list, or add to a current one.

My brain on super-nova overload!