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I’m obsessed with helping people. I’m not a doctor, therapist, convenience store clerk, park ranger, or general contractor, however – so I can’t help you with your foot fungus, daddy issues, lotto habit, insatiable botanical curiosity, or basement renovation. What I am is a writer, editor, and natural-born teacher with a tremendous work ethic and an innate desire to help the world be as lovely and humane a place as possible. So my blog is focused on sharing small lessons I’ve learned: small ways to be a better writer, a better worker, and a better human.

Change happens incrementally. Start small.                                                                                                                            

New blog posted weekly in either Small Ways, Red Pencil Scribbles, or Nice Thing o' the Week. To receive updates, find me on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter.


August 16, 2017

Word perversions we need to set straight

August 16, 2017/ Heather Reagan
Word perversions we need to set straight

We all enjoy looking smarter than we are. Sadly, however, there’s no avoiding the fact that people make judgments about other people's intelligence based on the smallest bits of data. It's not fair, but it happens.

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...to Be a Better Writer, ...to Be a Better Human
#Wednesdaywisdom, #WritingTips, #CommonErrors, #Non-words
August 09, 2017

A compendium of commonly confused words (part 3 of 3)

August 09, 2017/ Heather Reagan
A compendium of commonly confused words (part 3 of 3)

Welcome to our FINAL blog installment focused on sorting out some of the most commonly confused words in the English language.

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...to Be a Better Writer
#EnglishUsage, #WritingTips, #Wednesdaywisdom, #CommonErrors, #UsageErrors
August 02, 2017

A compendium of commonly confused words (part 2 of 3)

August 02, 2017/ Heather Reagan
A compendium of commonly confused words (part 2 of 3)

Welcome to part two of our list of some of the English language's most commonly confused word pairs.

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...to Be a Better Writer
#Wednesdaywisdom, #WritingTips, #CommonErrors, #EnglishUsage, #UsageErrors
July 26, 2017

A compendium of commonly confused words (part 1 of 3)

July 26, 2017/ Heather Reagan
A compendium of commonly confused words (part 1 of 3)

The English language is rife with super-fun word pairs in which one word is commonly confused with the other. Some simply sound alike. Others have overlapping/similar meanings that are hard to keep straight.

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...to Be a Better Writer
#Wednesdaywisdom, #WritingTips, #EnglishUsage, #CommonErrors, #UsageErrors

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