Porchlight newsletter

Posted by on Jul 18, 2013 in Magazines | 0 comments A newsletter for the Front Porch Alliance, a non-profit organization in Kansas City.
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Palliative Pearls newsletter

Posted by on Jul 18, 2013 in Magazines | 0 comments The quarterly palliative care newsletter for Olathe Medical Center.
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Hospice Connections newsletter

Posted by on Jul 18, 2013 in Magazines | 1 comment The monthly hospice newsletter for Olathe Medical Center
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Mel Carney author logo

Posted by on Sep 28, 2012 in Logos | 0 comments Logo for Kansas City author Mel Carney, who writes memoirs, poetry and children’s books.
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Alliance Fraincaise 50th anniversary logo

Posted by on Sep 28, 2012 in Logos | 0 comments A special logo for the Alliance Francaise in Kansas City, which incorporates their everyday logo with a 50th anniversary theme.
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Caroline Street Press Logo

Posted by on May 6, 2012 in Logos | 0 comments Logo for a new Kansas City-based publishing house, Caroline Street Press. The company’s name comes from a street in Key West, Florida.
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Hi, my name is Noun Marie Noun

Posted by on Aug 15, 2011 in Words and writing | 0 comments As a professional word geek, I really dig stories like this one, even though I have heard many of the examples before: There Once Was a Man Named Leotard: People Who Became Nouns Not that I harbor any illusions that anything will be named after me for any reason, mostly because it’s quite the other way around. My first name is the Irish word for girl, so across the pond, my name is a noun,...
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Why normal people hate grammar people

Posted by on Jun 30, 2011 in Words and writing | 0 comments OK, see? This is why normal people hate grammar people. This is why I cringed throughout most of the research for my Modern English class in grad school. “Don’t kill the Oxford comma!” over at salon.com. Christ, calm down. The Oxford comma – or serial comma – is the comma before the “and” in a series: I bought eggs, milk, and bacon. I don’t use the serial comma unless...
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