Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Google will show you plenty of theories and pointers for writing the perfect Craigslist ad. And Amazon has a few books on the subject as well (for instance, Make Money Posting Ads on Craigslist).
But I’m going to show you a real live unique Craigslist ad-in-the-making. I hope to list it there within 24 hours (just in time to sell the car this weekend, you know).
The rest of this post is The Ad itself. Read it. Study it. Learn from it. And Read it all
Dorcas Smucker’s lastest book is a great read.
Unless you’re wanting to read about tea. Then it’s a troubling read. 😯
I thought you should know. 😆
Like I tried to assure Dorcas… Read it all
I’m Waiting to Say aside, I’ve some other posts pressing my pericardium (I think). Earlier this morning I finally started outlining these four:
With these as their opening sub-points: Read it all
I wrote some special sentences for my high school Spanish class:
As you can see, I ended up with a nice little story. (I didn’t set out to do that, but things happen.) I should illustrate it.
I struggled for a title:
They were stopped (or mostly so) in traffic.
Til he came along. 😯
And gave them a push. 😐
OK, more than a push — a whiplashing bash. 🙁
It happened on her birthday. In Sandy, Oregon.
Thankfully, Mr. Regretful Cruiser Read it all
For my high school Spanish class today, the students are planning to take a written quiz on the proper uses of the present tense conjugations of ir, ser, and estar. That is, they’d better be planning that way; I am!
After that, we’ll do oral pronunciation and translation work using these two lists:
And these statements: Read it all
Goody two-shoes? What does that mean?!
It must be something bad. Really, terribly bad. I’ve never heard anything positive about a goody two-shoes. I’ve never heard anyone aspire to being one. Obviously there’s no good in that kind of goody.
Goody two-shoes are mocked, derided, and scorned. They are held in contempt and as a standard of what not to be.
Why?
OK, after writing all that, I looked up the term and found these two helpful entries:
A prudish, self-righteous individual, a goody-goody. For example, Phyllis was a real goody two-shoes, tattling on her friends to the teacher. This expression alludes to the main character of a nursery tale, The History of Goody Two-Shoes (1765), who was so pleased when receiving a second shoe that she kept saying “Two shoes.” The goody in the story is short for goodwife but means “goody-goody” in the idiom.
Source: dictionary.com
That helps. I’ve even met people like that. And people I thought were like that, but I discovered later my own weakness propelled me to a huge leap onto a wrong, unjust conclusion. Andrée over at World magazine experienced something similar: Read it all