She was just shy of being a freak of vocabulary nature...

I was just sitting here thinking about my newfound blog experience. I did not realize that I would ever enjoy words as much as I do before I met my dear friend Hope...

Hope and I worked together for years. Writing narrative reports was one of our many tasks each day. It would amaze me that Hope would finish her reports very quickly and that is what I wanted to do. The secret she shared was so simple... it is called increasing your vocabulary! I discovered that one word could take the place of several; sometimes it would replace an entire paragraph! Now if my English Vocabulary teachers would have told me that by increasing my vocabulary I would have more free time, I would have jumped right on that! Hope was patient and shared her art of the English language freely. She was just shy of being, in my mind at least, a freak of vocabulary nature! But if I got stumped, she was ready, willing, and VERY able to assist! Before long, I had cut the time I spent writing daily reports in half! I was hooked! And so started my love affair with words... Thanks Hope!!!