• Deep-Fried Friday

    Are You a Believer or a Skeptic?

    Skeptic: 1. a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual. 2. a person who maintains a doubting attitude, as toward values, plans, statements, or the character of others.from www.dictionary.com, based on Random House Dictionary…

  • Amazing Words Wednesday

    Poetry You Actually Like

    After my Limericks post, I realized how true it is that people who swear they don’t like poetry actually might. Plenty of people enjoy limericks, and that’s poetry. What other poetry masquerades as something fun rather than something you must…

  • Amazing Words Wednesday

    Lining Up at the Movies

    What primarily fascinates me about language is how by simply choosing and ordering words, we can convey something meaningful to someone else. That fact is the foundation of speaking and writing. Sometimes, however, what’s said moves beyond meaningful and becomes…

  • Deep-Fried Friday

    Top 10 Silly But We-Love-Em Songs

    For today’s Deep-Fried Friday, the topic is not so much deep as just juicy. Paul McCartney declared, “You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs,” but we haven’t. Indeed, we can’t get enough of silly songs,…

  • Amazing Words Wednesday

    Can I Make Up a Word?

    “I speak of the pompatus of love.” Welcome to Amaze-ing Words Wednesday! There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who believe that Steve Miller is super-cool for making up a word -“pompatus” [of love] – and those…

  • Deep-Fried Friday

    I Like You, But I Hate Your Politics

    It’s Deep-Fried Friday, and my crunchy/juicy topic is politics! Am I crazy or what? Wait, read on. News programs are already abuzz with constant discussion about the next President of the United States. From now until next November, presidential candidates,…

  • Amazing Words Wednesday

    A Lesson with Miss Pronunciation

    It’s time for AMAZE-ing Words Wednesday! Today’s word lesson will be taught by renowned language arts instructor, Miss Pronunciation. Miss Pronunciation will present the incorrect and correct ways of articulating some commonly mispronounced words in the English language. Without further…