First off, don’t get all wrapped up in the headline. I’m a long way from 68. So shut up. The hed — that’s a journalism word there — is from a John Mayer song about getting older, Stop This Train. The lyric goes like this: Had a talk with my old man Said “help me understand” He said “turn… Read More Turn 68, you’ll renegotiate
Someday, I will publish a coffee table book that will be filled with beautiful, artistic photos of public signs with misused apostrophes. It will be 536 pages long. That will be the first volume. I don’t consider myself a grammar nut. I’m not the punctuation police by any stretch. I don’t dissolve into puddles over these things (like… Read More Apostrophe me
It’s not the idea of a self-cleaning toilet. That seems like pure awesomeness. It’s the sign, folks. It’s the words. Someone got paid to come up with that “slogan” and convinced his or her boss that it was a good idea. The boss took it to the bean counters who approved it being printed on big cardboard… Read More Someone gets paid for this
We didn’t cry. Well, we didn’t cry a lot. And here we are, a week into our empty nest, still mostly dry-eyed. We’re still all right. Thanks for asking. It’s not as if everything suddenly screeched to a dead-silent halt around here, either. Luke’s still the topic of the day. It is, after all, his first week of college.… Read More One week in
I’ve spent the past few weeks — well, honestly, it’s been a lot longer than that — thinking about what to say to the boy when we drive him downtown to his dorm Thursday afternoon, unload an SUV full of clothes and electronics and turn around to come home without him. This is a big deal, this… Read More Words to the boy
I’ve been wanting to write something about guns and gun violence in America, so when some deranged zealot got loose in Orlando, I sat down and knocked out a quick post. Before I could punch “Publish,” though, I ran nose-first into the enemy of all quick posts. I started thinking. Define all, delete. Dammit. This is a… Read More Getting guns right
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