Comments for Alma Alexander

Comment on Playing with dolls by Robert Jones

Robert Jones — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:19:21 +0000

The things that are created in young minds are sometimes extraordinary. It’s a shame that students are still so reined in to fit into stunting molds that lowers their creative energy to unimaginative levels. I can recall the times when I was chastised in class for simply asking a question that was considered “outside the box.” I’ve read about efforts to improve teaching methods and hope that such efforts continue.
Thank you for the warm and intimate piece. If dolls serve your purpose, collect a new set. If you need a note giving you permission, I’ll draft one for you.

Comment on Where the wild things (no longer) are by Robert Jones

Robert Jones — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:17:43 +0000

Interesting perspective, Alma. You leave a reader with much to think about. Fine piece.
Bob

Comment on The art of (re)writing by Robert Jones

Robert Jones — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:05:26 +0000

Your excellent piece rang a chorus of familiar bells, Alma. I especially like your paragraph about “the architecture of the town of FirstDraft” and your perception of the subsequent multichotomy of styles.
Bob

Comment on Miscellaneous thoughts… by Robert Jones

Robert Jones — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:51:57 +0000

Thank you for a homey, enjoyable read; for a hilarious image of you lifting and dragging a carpet with your heel and for adding a new word (cerulean) to my vocabulary.
Bob

Comment on You get Value for Money this month… by Carole Lanham

Carole Lanham — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:54:22 +0000

Guzzling cream pies! How beautiful. I love it. Thank you for sharing

Comment on What is it all FOR…? by Alma Alexander

Alma Alexander — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:23:19 +0000

Thanks, Robert – and point taken, but for US, as human passengers, I don’t think that FTL is quite yet a viable option [grin]

Comment on What is it all FOR…? by Robert Jones

Robert Jones — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:30:35 +0000

A fine piece, Alma. I found myself nodding in agreement and sometimes chuckling throughout. Only one miniscule nit FYI: The speed limit of light imposed by Albert E’s Special Theory of Relativity holds only in an inertial (nonaccelerating) system, which the known Universe is not.
Bob

Comment on Talisman Books by Carole Lanham

Carole Lanham — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:20:15 +0000

What a beautiful tribute to the wonderful world of reading. You captured the magical, deep-rooted, spiritual love I feel for books. You made me want to read the books on your list that I have not read and re-read the ones I have. I am not normally a re-reader. You have my thinking now about which books I’d run through flames to save.

Comment on Talisman Books by Robert Jones

Robert Jones — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:41:55 +0000

A powerful piece, Alma, especially your comments about the book that lived beside your grandfather’s bed. I could feel that all the way down to my toes.

I was happy to learn that you are also one who has a number of partly read books in different parts of your house. I also keep at least one in my car for railroad crossings.

Bob

Comment on In the dead of winter… by Bob

Bob — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:43:48 +0000

A most illustrative comparison, Alma. In my experience, it seems that, no matter how many times i proofread my scribblings, I sometimes miss a word/bee that nails me.

The African bees you mentioned sound like the infamous “killer bees” that have attacked in numbers and actually killed persons. While hiking through a forest in Venezuela, I noticed an opening in a tree and a small swarm of bees buzzing about it. What appeared to be an endless, solid stream of bees shot out at me. They came to within inches of me before I could even raise a hand. I must have approached to a distance that was a dividing line between warn off and attack, because they pulled a one-eighty and shot back to their hive. It happened too fast for me to feel any fear, but I certainly felt LUCKEEEY.