The Genres of My Life

A whole lexicon of acronyms is multiplying faster than I can keep up. I thought that teaching high school students, teaching college stude...

Even though I teach English, not all of my friends are teachers. I do have a handful of friends that also teach, but neither of my best frie...

My future husband The "evolution" of communication brought about by technological advancements does not negate basic grammati...

The Oxford English Dictionary offers 37 definitions for whore; 27 for slut; 234 for "virgin"; 35 for "chaste." Urban Dic...

Education should benefit not just the  intelligent, the innocent, and the disciplined. It also should serve the stupid, the criminal, and th...

Traditionally, New Year's Eve is the official reboot-your-life day. But for me, that feeling of renewal comes in September when the sch...

I speak two languages: snob and sarcasm. Snob is my written language; sarcasm is my colloquial language. Whenever I write anything -- fic...

I understand that language will and must evolve to join with scientific discovery, technological progression, and cultural mish-mashing, bu...

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose, By Any other name would smell as sweet?"                              --- Rome...

Back in August, I blogged about my father's humorous rhetoric. One of my personal favorite "Dadisms," as I call them, is monk...