Celestial Chicken Blog

There has been some controversy over the years about kids (and adults) spending too much time online instead of reading books or writing. Well, the surprise is…not all kids (or adults) spending time online are playing computer games. Most of the internet requires READING and WRITING. Not a shock, eh? I know [...]

So today I was listening to the “I Should Be Writing” podcast by Mur Lafferty, which always has a tendency to make me feel a bit guilty about what I’ve not been doing. She primarily interviews writers, PUBLISHED writers, and talks about all the projects she has going, and the conferences she is attending [...]

Webster is adding about 100 new words to its dictionary this year. I am a little surprised at some of them, but not at others. What I find interesting is that sometimes it takes them almost a hundred years to add a word/phrase (”wing nut” as a description of a radical was first [...]