The generalities
Words, words, words! So much to read and write and do and see, yet so little time. I am hoping that with a presumed absence of a “plentiful lack of wit,” this blog can scratch through the pervading shadows–at least a little. Onward to the “intolerable wrestle/With words and meanings.”
The specifics
In no particular order, I am the following: a recovering English major, editor, proofreader, and fact-checker; wife; mother; writer; runner; reader; prog and rock music-lover; unabashedly amateur photographer and gardener; and lover of family, nature, hashtag games, both speech and the written word, and pad buns. (Erm, make that bad puns.) I hope you’ll join me as we reach into the silence; who knows what we’ll find if we only try.
Loquaciously yours,
Leigh
Leigh's Wordsmithery 
I am an English major now and want to become a writer!
Hello, welcome, and thanks for your comment. I’ll call you “Girls” for now, as I don’t know your name from reading your “About” page, since there are two writers on your blog. As you’re an English major now, I daresay you already are a writer–and looking at your story, it is very gripping, even for non-parents, I think! For a long time, I’ve defined myself as a writer, and I think that’s important (how we think of and present ourselves to the world). In any case, I am excited to read what happens to Elise/her legs and get more background on her and her family and why on Earth the friend didn’t show up.
Thanks! I will be working on it!
Hi! Sorry it took me so long, Been tied up 😦 Thank you for the follow 🙂
No worries, Andy. I enjoy your site (recently read your thoughts on the younger generation and agree with you wholeheartedly) and can identify with the ’80s music and parenting, for sure. Best wishes to you and yours–keep those b&w photos and writings coming! 🙂
Thank you Leigh! super appreciate that! 🙂 🙂
Thanks back to you, Andy, for following this tiny blog! 🙂 Happy Friday!
Right back at ya 🙂
Hi Leigh, I wanted to thank you for the follow! Please be aware that my blog is a bilingual one. So you may get links to some poems in English as well as to some in Italian… Pictures, on the other hand, have no language barriers 😉
Keep up the good work.
Anna
Hi, Anna, and thanks for visiting and for the note about your bilingual site. I’ll read the Italian ones as well, even if I can pick up only a few words here and there with my limited knowledge of Italian. 🙂 The language has a music all its own, regardless of my inability to understand the content! In any case, best wishes to you as well–happy creating!
Thanks Leigh for following and spending some time at my blog.
And thank you so much, Norma. I, too, am grateful for the “open sky” (to use your great wording) that WP provides us, where we can be creative. This conversation about what it means to be a writer (versus, say, an author or journalist) has been on my mind a lot lately, too. In any case, best wishes to you on your blogging.
Thanks Leigh, for your encouragement and support. Wish you also, the best in your future endeavours.
Leigh, I have nominated you for Liebster award http://truckerturningwrite.com/2014/03/29/saying-thanks-starting-write-now/
You are so sweet, Frankie (as your ode to your anamchara proves)! As I am new to the WP realms, let me check this Liebster thing out; but I do want to thank you for the kind thought in advance. Happy writing, my friend!
No problem. it’s there for the taking.
I am only at this five weeks also. It’s good practice, this blogging. Happy writing to you also, my friend.
Hi loquacious Leigh… It’s real nice meeting you! I like your take on various prompts and challenges.. you have an entertaining blog 🙂 Keep it up, best wishes to you 🙂
Hello to a fellow wordsmith! I look forward to reading more of your posts!
Thank you for visiting, Brittany. Likewise on reading your posts, plus I’m wishing you much success with your freelance wordsmithery! 🙂
Thank you!
What a wonderful introduction 🙂
Yes you are right who knows what we will find if we try ..
Lets go thorough this journey together and lets find out 🙂 ?
May Allah bless you ameen
Thank you so much for reading and taking the time to “talk” with me on WordPress, Afsheenanjum! (And apologies for the late-late reply). Best wishes to you always!
🙂 hope to see you again and stay blessed
Thanks for checking out my blog! Hope we get to read a lot of each other 🙂
Lunatique
Great little story of “Mistranslated Magic” over at Ksenia Anske blog for her competition she put on…nice to read a fellow writer’s work.:)
Thank you, Philip, and congratulations on the win! Hope to be reading you more soon.
Thanks very much Leigh
You have no idea , how happy your blog made me today . That too your “About” page . A reader . A writer . Sometimes That alone is enough for me in a person . Leigh , I’m 22 , and music and books complete me . Getting to know a blogger like you just made me happy . Can’t wait to get through all of your blog posts 🙂 🙂
Hey Leigh , I have a news for you . I have nominated you for the “ONE LOVELY BLOG AWARD” And I really hope you accept my invitation . You hava very beautiful blog Leigh , and I really think you deserve this nomination . Congrats . Click here to know more about this http://priyankakanagaraj.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/yyyyaaayyyyy-me-ive-been-nominated-for-the-one-lovely-blog-award/
Hello Leigh, I looked last time I was on your site, I can’t see a button to press for an email Follow. It is no good pressing the ordinary Follow as I never even get to my Reader. Can you help?
That’s a great question, Hilary. I’m not too sophisticated (obviously!) at this point in terms of the blog design and what-not. Let me check into this and I’ll see what (if anything) in the way of an e-mailing list that I can do on the cheap (I don’t have the fancy, non-free WordPress at this point). Thanks for asking — and have a great week!
I think there’s a widget for ‘follow me by email’.
Think I’ve got it successfully installed, and it looks OK. I already subscribe to me, so I haven’t tested it, though. 🙂 Thanks again for the kick in the figurative pants, Hilary!
It works!
Hi Leigh, I have nominated you for the 777 challenge.
Please visit http://normashilpi.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/777-challenge/.
Would love see your response. Thanks.
Love your blog! Love it so much I have nominated you for Liebster award. You can check the rules out here:
http://cartervail.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/liebster-award/
Thank you so much for the visit to my blog. Wishing you the best in your blogging journey.
cate b
Thanks for the Blog Propellant follow! Looking forward to your contributions and following your blog.
Any one who can spell loquacious deserves to be followed to the end of the earth, well, end of the road anyway. Looking forward to reading more of your ramblings!
Why, thank you (I think)! 🙂 I can’t always spell that well, but when I do, I thank my lucky stars for Merriam-Webster, says the world’s least interesting woman.
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Good to meet you.
Likewise, sir. You are a talented artist! 🙂
Thank you!
Seasons greetings 🙂
I love your tagline! We, former English majors (I’m one too), are too often taught words can be tamed. Ho! Here is my link. Hope you get lots of $$$ for the dogs! http://jttwissel.com
Hi Leigh! I am so happy to have found that you are still blogging away! You might remember me from my old blog, “Cancer Is Not Pink”, which I have abandoned for a new adventure. Keep on keeping on!
Leigh,
Several years ago we began a conversation about T.S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, and others–which we never finished, if there is such a thing! In any case, and for anyone else also reading this, I have, for the past three years, helmed Twelve House Books, a publisher of strange and quirky fiction (Fabulism, Macabre, odd, uncanny, weird), and of every kind of poetry. Please feel free to submit work for publishing consideration. Send a brief synopsis and the full manuscript to: twelve.house.books@protonmail.com