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i am a family physician who was diagnosed with
early mild cognitive impairment(mci) amnestic type on december 21, 2010
this is a precursor to alzheimers disease
because of this diagnosis i have opted to stop practicing medicine
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

i am guilty of most of these

I AM GUILTY OF MOST OF THESE
Image result for ee cummings
when i was in school my favorite writer and poet
was ee cummings
the guy who didnt use caps or commas or periods

i decided if i ever became a writer that was what i would
do
not use any of those things
no caps no punctuations

so as you can tell from what youve read so far
that seems to be the case

another thing i like to do but dont always do is
to use the wrong word
like their for there or theyre
yes
i do it on porpoise

i think there is a little defiant boy inside of me
i really think thats why i write like that

as i tell my creative writing reading english teacher my wife she
its my blog i can write and spell like i want to

now
i will tell you
each morning as i write i just put it all on paper
the spell checker goes crazy
its all red squiggling lines all over the place
some i go back and fix
others
well i wrote it that way on porpoise

after i write it and do my posting
my wife she reads it
and
makes suggestions like she would if i was one of her students
now honey you know i would do it this way

some i agree with some i dont

so microsoft did this list of the 10 most common errors done
by writers
even well known ones

so i read them
guilty as charged on most of them
some i do well most of them i do intentionally

1   leave a   space in the writing
some i do by mistake
some i do to separate a line of items or a topic   like this

2   missing a comma
always do this one
ee would be proud i think

3   missing a comma after introductory pause
as i wrote above guilty as charged

4   missing a hyphen
i never push that key on my computer
guilty again

5   incorrect subject  verb agreement
did you catchs that ones
now that one i always do correct unless i do it intentionally

6   incorrect capitalization
like she is good But sometimes she is not
i never have that problem since i dont ever capitalize things

7   mixing up plural and possessive forms
always
smiths dog eg

8   incorrect agreement with non phrases
so what does that mean
its been awhile since i had english class
its misusing this or these
not guilty of this one
i want it done wright

9   commonly confused words
they use breath vs breathe
i dont make that one

10  incorrect verb after auxiliary
dont know what that one meant either
but
i dont make this mistake
their example are like this sentence

so
i am not guilty on four of   these
but
i am guilty as heck on the others

i know this makes some ocd teachers
uncomfortable
but
it feels good when i write like this

i do admit
that since i have been writing like this for 6 years now
it has completely drifted into my emails formal writing
my texts

i do feel like that the future will bring the lack of use
of all these rules
if you dont believe me
just read tweets and texts sometimes

i am glad to just be part of the movement

the organicgreen doctor

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