How can you become a better writer? Start by reading. Benjamin Dreyer | Opinion contributor People who write habitually – for work or for fun, journal entries or blog posts, book reports or short stories – often want to put their better foot forward, but the eccentricities and minutiae of the English language can be extraordinarily daunting.
As a professional word person, I know this as well as anyone: There’s always so freaking much to remember, from the basic differentiation between treacherous homophones (their, they’re, there), to the fine points of grammar (subject-verb agreement! The dreaded subjunctive!) ‘Know how to flex on Insta?’: grandchildren and grandparents explain the world to each other. ‘In your day, you were such gentlemen’: Louis Brow, 21, and Bob Smith, 80, on dating, slang and boxing Bob Smith sits upright on the sofa as his grandson, Louis Brow, prepares to quiz him on youth slang.
We are sitting in the living room of Louis’s family home in Ilkley, West Yorkshire; Bob has travelled over from Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire, in his Nissan Micra. “Would you know what flexing is?” Louis begins. : Buy books online. Support local bookstores. Eight marvelous and melancholy things I've learned about creativity. Why You Aren’t ‘Lazy’ If You’re Exhausted in Trauma Recovery. In my experience, emotional and psychological trauma survivors seem to worry more than most people that they are being “lazy” when they aren’t 100% productive.
Let’s expose that lie, shall we? The traumatized brain is anything but lazy. In fact, it is overworked, overstimulated, overactive and overstressed. Many trauma survivors have an enlarged amygdala, which triggers the fight-or-flight response. In a survivor, this response goes haywire. Say someone who has experienced trauma wants to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This is why people who have experienced trauma often burn out quickly. We all have goals, and chances are we’d all like to accomplish them sooner than reality permits. Shifting these priorities can make a huge difference, but it’s especially a challenge for those of us who cope by making ourselves too busy to face our trauma.
Sometimes, it seems easier to push through because it numbs us from fully feeling our pain. The war between hostile architecture and homelessness - Michael's essay. It is called hostile architecture, and it is spreading like kudzu in cities from Moncton to Montevideo.
A more euphemistic term is defensive architecture. It can take many forms, but basically, it is an anti-personnel device. In New York, a grassroots movement has sprung up against hostile architecture; activists roam the city taking pictures of offending structures. In Bournemouth, England, an artist sent out more than 5,000 stickers to people around the world in lively protest.
Hostile architecture can be a park bench designed so that no one can stretch out or, God forbid, sleep on it. Take the lowly park bench. Defenders of this kind of architecture say it is designed to cut down on crime. In my hometown, Toronto, it is virtually a criminal offence to be poor. In my hometown, Toronto, it is virtually a criminal offence to be poor. Eventually, the cops got tired of issuing tickets for fines they knew the homeless could never pay. Rents are rising faster than wages.
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