Sunday, December 30, 2007

I Actually Have a New Year's Resolution

My resolution? I read a local columnist's tirade about the overuse of the word "actually" and realized I am guilty. Actually, I don't write many paragraphs without beginning a sentence with the word actually. I was not actually aware of it until her enlightenment. Now, I will try to cut the use of actually from my prose. I will work on eliminating "now" next year. That is the problem with being 60+. No grammar-teaching nuns around to correct redundant writing. Actually, I have a nun in my life, sweet 91 Yr. old Whozanun, the Benediction Nun, but she is too nice to say anything.

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