I first read George Orwell’s 1984 my freshman year in high school. It was not a cheery read. Now, almost…
Just in case some of you might have thought me an unreasonably crochety old curmudgeon pining for the clear and…
I mourn the loss of the English language. There was a time, when I first started this blog, I tried…
Warning: some of what follows is pretty ugly and upsetting. History books usually cover the sweep of important events that…
A reader responded to my negative review of Annie Lamott’s Almost Everything (July 12, 2019) by asking if I could…