I just read an interesting book with this title. The book highlighted things people did that made their work exceptional. It was written by a high-level academic, Cal Newport, who drew on the experience of other high-achieving individuals in...
Many years ago, in a country far away, I spent one summer learning the difference
between a pair, a pear and pare (plus a few other things). I learned they are
homophones—words that sound the same but have different meanings.
You might know the original saying, “too heavenly-minded to be of any earthly use.” I
changed it because the original seems to focus more on our earthly efforts than God’s
grace in action.
You know you are a word geek when the spell checker says a word is incorrect because it does not know it. But this is no typo. Surrection is a word used for the geological process of rising or upheaval that causes emergence, when things come out...