About the Curator/Writer

My name is Sheryl Gordon and I'm curating a series of anthologies titled A Rewording Life. The anthologies feature beguiling yet bemusing words. In short, I want to disentangle words that, for one reason or another, bewilder me. Moreover, I want to honour my mom— who lost all of her words in the end. Part of the profits of these books will therefore go toword [sic] organizations that are helping to put the end in #demENDtia.
To make the journey even more wordwhile, I'm collaborating with people who make my life rewarding: authors, musicians, comedians, chefs, journalists, etc. Their mission is to bring clarity to obscure, elusive words and they have one sentence in which to accomplish this. Period.
These sentences showcase just how lucid these fiddly words can be. Cool Canadian contributors—thanks for shining your light on these:
To make the journey even more wordwhile, I'm collaborating with people who make my life rewarding: authors, musicians, comedians, chefs, journalists, etc. Their mission is to bring clarity to obscure, elusive words and they have one sentence in which to accomplish this. Period.
These sentences showcase just how lucid these fiddly words can be. Cool Canadian contributors—thanks for shining your light on these:
I eschew the cashew; I'm allergic, and it makes me ah-chooo. |
Piecing It Together

How do you piece together a thousand coruscant sentences into a cohesive story—a story meant to raise money for dementia? Here is my concept. To give the book some emotional fibre, I wrote eight personal essays for the book:
- A is for Alzheimer’s
- D is for Disentangle
- E is for Encomium
- I is for Ineffable
- M is for Mot Juste
- N is for Nadir
- T is for Turbid
- E is for Epiphany
Awards
A Rewording Life won IPPY Gold in 2017 for the category Best Regional Non-Fiction, Canada East (see image below)
About IPPY
- IPPY stands for the Independent Publisher Book Awards
- Conceived in 1996, IPPY is a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry
- In 2015, IPPY attracted over 5700 entries
- To date, more than 4500 IPPYs have been awarded globally to authors and publishers. Highlighted below are two pretty prominent IPPY recipients. Recognize them?
- Margaret Atwood won an IPPY in 2003 for Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
- David Eggers won a fiction gold medal for What is the What