Finding a Box of Family Letters May 3rd, 2012 @ 5:15 am PDT
This poem is beautiful.
Wonderful Phrases July 31st, 2008 @ 5:10 am PDT
These all need to make a comeback
PicoPad Wallet Notes March 8th, 2007 @ 8:20 am PST
I’m not writing it down to remember it later …
Grammar Matters (Still) February 15th, 2007 @ 7:37 pm PST
Recently I saw a commercial for Sylvan Learning Centers. This is a company that is selling products to help your children do well in school. The ad showed a teenage girl gabbing on the telephone. The voice-over said, “Sally sure can talk fast. We can help her read fast,” or something like that. Apparently grammar […]
Grammar Matters (Again) January 17th, 2007 @ 6:06 am PST
Last night I writhed in agony while watching the 11 o’clock news. The local NBC affiliate was running a story about the Sacramento disc jockeys that were fired recently. (The radio personalities had sponsored a contest which led to the death of a woman.) Behind the anchorman the screen displayed DJ’s Fired. I’m sure that […]
CRAM Magazine January 16th, 2007 @ 6:26 pm PST
Quite nifty! My mini-tutorial — Five Tips for Smarter Playlists — has been published in the second issue of the online pdf magazine CRAM. A few weeks ago I received an email from one of their editors requesting permission to republish the essay. I had actually forgotten all about it. Then this morning someone at […]
Levenger Gotham Pen Refill January 16th, 2007 @ 10:03 am PST
About a decade ago I bought a Gotham model pen from Levenger. It is by far my favorite pen. This weekend I found it in the cigar box I use to hold all my “best” pens and was quite disappointed to discover that its ink had run dry. Levenger no longer makes this fabulous pen […]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy September 26th, 2006 @ 7:13 pm PDT
This is an essay I wrote a loooong time ago … I must have been 13 or 14 … good old St. Paul’s Catholic Elementary School in Daytona Beach, FL …
The Commonly Confused Words Test March 28th, 2005 @ 7:02 pm PST
Amazing! According to this test I am an English Genius. It was not a surprise to see that I scored a perfect 100%, actually, on the advanced sections. What was shocking was that I scored in the embarrassingly-low 80s on what were supposed to be the simple sections. That, and the fact that I could […]
Funny Stuff in My Inbox — High School Essays June 12th, 2003 @ 2:12 pm PDT
These are from a joke email circulating that purports to be “ANALOGIES & METAPHORS FOUND IN HIGH SCHOOL ESSAYS”. I highly doubt that these were actually culled from high school essays. The main reason I don’t believe it is because there is no point of reference. There is no notation or source. The second reason […]
