Recent work online: Stalking Samuel Pepys and The Quantum Nature of the S&H Green Stamp.
I am lucky enough to make my living being curious.
I fell in love with language first. You can still dazzle me into submission with a single word, but it has to be the right one: ululate. chimera. house.
Think that last one doesn’t belong? Think again.
(and while you are thinking, please donate to Etymology Online, the most amazing free word resource on the Web).
I digress.
Here is something I wrote a few years ago that sums up how I feel about language, about writing, and about the teaching of writing.
So leave me a comment, and tell me: How did you find your way with words? Are you still looking?
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