Wow, so many good ideas for separate. I thought I had it with the bookend thing, but then the “a rat” held sway but I think James takes the cake with, a good day golfing. Se(e), Par, Ate
I respond positively to some seriously strange levels of abstraction and James abstracts that. Thanks.

Now, something else that I thought of after reading the
conscience
conscientious
conscious

is just how difficult it must be for someone to learn to write English. It may be easy to speak, as Mark Twain so eloquently argued in this essay The Awful German Language, but it certainly isn’t easy to spell.

My favorite example , is earth. I know I may have just shot myself in the foot as a writer by interrupting you with the inestimable Mr. Twain but I am pushing on.
Earth sounds like Urth.
Lets see what other sounds EA make.

Tear (which one? The drop or angry paper?)
Bear (but that sounds like Mare?)
Each (which is a lot like speech.)
Lead (which one again? The followers focus or Pb?)

That is all I can think of.

I think everyone has one (or more) of those words that they just can’t spell.

No matter how hard you try, you always find yourself checking with the dictionary.
My word is ‘separate’ or ‘seperate’…no separate. (I had to look it up)
I have tried and tried to ‘remember’ the correct spelling but I am constantly second guessing myself and I can never remember which direction I second guessed last time.

Does anyone have an idea or a mnemonic for how I can quash this annoyance?
Does anyone care to expose their own spelling silver bullet?

Maybe blief can help.
Ask blief.

Last Thursday was Abby’s first day of school.

In a nutshell, she took it in stride and left Mom and Dad in an unexpected place.

What do we do now?
I guess we go home.
I thought we said we weren’t going to rush her in there?
Well, I guess she had other plans.
Yeah

She didn’t even look back over her shoulder. Then when we picked her up 2 hours later everything was said in ALL CAPS!

I HAD FUNNNNNNNN! I MADE DOTS! I CAN EVEN DO THE MONKEY BARS!

I guess we have done good so far. Here is a before picture.