Downtown Train
It’s been an interesting couple of months living downtown in the city. There are some truly great things like music festivals (two in August alone) and fa...
Category: Grammar
Mr. Grinch
There is an unwritten, often unmentioned social contract that takes place when you do what you think is something selfless. We like to think that we are altruis...
To Be or Not To Be
What Shakespeare was talking about in the famous soliloquy from “Hamlet” was not all about whether it’s better to end your life or to continue...
Full Stop
The Nipper is learning punctuation. They were studying periods, exclamation points, and question marks in class. He told us they have hand signals for each one ...
Part of the Precipitate
It’s not “a savings”. There’s no such thing as “a savings”. “Savings” means more than one. Know why? Because it&...
And in other news
Anybody want to come to a book launch in October?
Lax Language, the Return of
A while back, I said something which I don’t entirely remember exactly what it was about not wanting to have the discussion about why writing the way peop...
Why you should never, ever use the word "Myself" the way you think it's okay to use it. Because it's not. Okay to use it that way. Trust me.
“Myself” is a bit like a dildo. WHOA, CENOBYTE!!! THAT’S TOTALLY TMI!!! No, seriously. Stay with me here. I’m’a get back to that. ...
Because TUO brought it up: Lay/Lie
Because TUO brought it up: Lay or Lie? Lay means “to place something down.” It is something you do to something else. It is a transitive verb. Incor...