Quote to ponder under the apple tree

If you ask me what I came in this world to do,
I will tell you: I came to live out loud. -- Emile Zola

Resources to bite into

1. Do you love words, but find crossword puzzles make you cross?

You can also stimulate your brain by reading about language. Try Bill Bryson’s books, The Mother Tongue, English and How It Got That Way, and Made In America, An Informal History of the English Language in the United States. Bill Bryson is an entertaining writer in any language.
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To order Made in America, click here.

2. Do you need more humor in your life?

Lots of websites with jokes include gags that are off-color or insulting to various groups of people. One that has loads of “clean jokes” is www.ahajokes.com.
Here’s an excerpt of one from that website that looks humorously at the English language:

• Eye halve a spelling chequer
  It came with my pea sea
  It plainly marques four my revue
  Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
• As soon as a mist ache is maid
  It nose bee fore two long
  And eye can put the error rite
  Its rarely ever wrong.
• Eye have run this poem threw it
  I am shore your pleased two no
  Its letter perfect in it's weigh
  My chequer tolled me sew.

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Subscribe to Mark Warner’s free email newsletter “Alzheimer’s Daily News” at www.agelessdesign.com. Mark is also the author of the excellent book, The Complete Guide to Alzheimer’s-Proofing Your Home.
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Tips/ideas/insights to savor

You can also use humor and the oddities of English to make a training point.
The ahajokes website has dozens of puns. Here’s a shortened version of one:

• John told Sue that he was disappointed in his new pet fish,
  “The guy who sold him to me said I could teach him to sing like a bird.”
• Sue said, “You’re disappointed because you thought you
  could teach your fish to sing like a bird?”
• John said, “Well, yeah. After all, he's a parrot fish.”
• Sue said that even parrot birds squawked better than they sang,
  and she thought his effort was doomed.
• John said, “You don’t understand. He can sing, but he’s off-key.
  It's driving me crazy. Do you know how hard it is to tuna fish?”

Think about this every time you have unrealistic expectations of yourself or anyone else.

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