I’m the author of two books of poetry, It’s Probably Nothing… and Trigger Finger, and the blog Yuckylicious. I’m interested in things which go horribly wrong.
What is an Actual Fuck. Actual Fucks have become quite the verbal currency of late. You may even have employed one or…
As a Language Arts teacher, one of the most difficult things I have to teach is the notion of irony. We say “that’s ironic” all the time without really being able to put our finger on what irony is. This is…
It’s a late afternoon appointment, and the waiting room is almost empty — just an old lady in a wheelchair and her husband. I’m there…
One of the most important points made in Kory Stamper’s book Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, is that there’s a misunderstanding…