I recently received the results of a poll asking that very question. It was produced by a company called Grammarly, a leading automated proofreader. The results are sure to set off some interesting (read: heated & intense) discussions among writers of both genders. I won’t keep you in suspense. The …
Accomplished wordsmith William Safire once defined a gap between the generations as “a frustrating lack of communication between young and old, or a useful stretch of time that separates cultures within a society, allowing them to develop their own character.” That’s a pretty good definition. But it doesn’t tell the …
You have probably received one of those e-mails displaying photos of so-called “Walmart People.” As you scroll down, there is a collection of photos of Walmart shoppers wearing wild assortments of clothing covering bodies that seem fashioned from silly putty or carved from tree stumps. There are horribly overweight women wearing …