September 23, 2017

Fickle Syllable Boondoggle

A couple days ago I just finished teaching my Syllables: Fact and Fiction LEXinar. And in a few days I will finish up another round of […]
May 13, 2019

Going with the Flow

A few weeks ago, one of my wonderful clients asked me for some help in moving her practice from OG to SWI — especially with the […]
July 30, 2019

Cooke-with-an-E

My Symposium in the Pines ended ten days ago; my last guests departed the next day. Since then, I’ve ordered school clothes and school supplies for […]
June 26, 2020

Money Clip

The base element -phone- means ‘voice, vocal sound.’ The WORD 'phone' is a clip of ‘telephone’ and it means ‘telephone.’ Each word in that family has a general, central meaning, a denotation, of 'voice, sound.' But they do not all have a central meaning of 'telephone.'