2010 has been washed away
Anyone who knows me well knows that I’m a home-body. It’s not unusual to find me relaxing at home on New Year’s Eve, and that’s where I was this 31 December. I decided, however, that I wanted to do something different to ring in the New Year besides just watching a movie or surfing the […]
You Can Say That Again! Oh, You Did Say That Again: “Reason Why” Is So Wrong!
So many of us use the phrase—reason why—almost every day in casual conversation, in business communications, on job applications, in research papers, in emails, and even while tweeting, texting, instant messaging and so on! I hear newscasters say it on television. I hear parents say it to their children in the grocery store when they’re […]
Do You Write Like You Talk?
“Ma, do you know where my favorite shoes are at,” was a common question I’d ask my mother when I was growing up and leaving my shoes and books and clothes all over the house instead of putting things in my room where they were supposed to go. “Behind that preposition ‘at’,” she’d say to […]