Fiction, Memoir, Poetry, Literacy
The comment came up again the other day. “It’s just my opinion,” this person said. “And everyone has their opinion. The thing is, you can’t argue with someone about their […]
I occasionally hear people talking about how God is the last defender of absolutes. It is as though the Greek way of thinking about philosophy, where we move in a […]
I think I said this before, or something like it: Poets don’t write with the intention of making their poems hard to understand. They do not write in code that […]
Recently, I tried writing a poem on the COVID-19 Pandemic. As usual, at the start I felt the way I imagine that my students do when I give them writing […]
Over-use lessens the impact of any word. Even our most cherished f-bombs and terms of sacrilege can, with over-use, cease to shock. As with cliched metaphors, we cease to hear, […]