Ten years later, we were in the middle of our first and only two-week family vacation. It was a July drive to Pike’s Peak in Colorado and back. By then, the eight of us — me, my younger brothers Mike, Dan, Terry and Tommy; my older sister Kim; and our parents — traveled in...
too. “Ding Dong the pitcher’s dead…” played in parody in Tessa’s head. She and Bill had registered for different pitcher. But her mother-in-law had given them this one, instead.
You'll wait a long, long time for anything much To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud And the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves. The sun and moon get crossed, but they never touch, Nor strike out fire from each other nor crash out loud. The planets seem to interf...
It was early morning, and my bedroom was next to the kitchen. I’m not sure how the floor plan of the house was determined, but I was residing in what had been the nursery, and while the other five kids had to share rooms, I had my own space. My two sisters were stuffed in a ...
Words like assent and accent look and sounds the familiar. But they have very different means. If you use the wrong word in a sentence, you will confuse you later. Therefore, when you learn to distinguish between small sounds, right, listen. You will automatically understand spoken English ...
(Endangered animals and plants can disappear in a few years, but the extinction of lie will probably take a couple of generations, so you’ll need to have the courage to be seen as “wrong” for your whole life.) I’m not sure if I’m being sarcastic or not. I really do take a...
Honestly, if I just say it out loud, FX’s 2017 mini-series Feud sounds like a boring melodrama. It’s not. Somehow, it’s not! It’s a tightly written, brilliantly acted, compelling character study of two women I’d literally never heard of before the series and now that I’ve wa...
Take a deep breath and start writing. Don’t worry about saying something “wrong.” These are only words, and no one need ever see them but you. Try for ten to twenty items on each side of the paper. Then, when you are ready, give your lists a second look. Some of the items ...
writing center. There is no wrong way to write such a poem. To get started, think of a topic and begin to write what comes to mind. Leave the poem for a few days, and revisit it. Edit out all unnecessary words, striving to leave the words that carry the most meaning and impact. ...
Had I mentioned that there’s just no substitute for reading a piece of writing IN ITS ENTIRETY, IN HARD COPY, and OUT LOUD? The eye is simply too likely to skip an error on-screen, partially because people read about 70% faster. Then, too, AP standards — i.e., what governs what...