Even if you don’t own a Monopoly™ set, you may have a “Get Out of Jail Free” card you don’t know about. What am I talking about? I’m talking about overdue library books and the Amnesty Program. All too many people have overdue library books. In most cases, this is not a case of trying...
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One From Column A, One From Column B
Some people, when they go out to eat, always try something new. Call them adventurous. Call them explorers. Other people, when they go out to eat, always order their favorites. My Uncle Harry, a mean tease whom I hated visiting when I was a kid, would have called them “stick-in-the-muds.”
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Good Advice For Writers Is Bad Advice For Readers
As little kids in elementary school, you may have participated in “Show and Tell.” But as writers, we are always advised, “Show. Don’t tell.” This admonition is intended to guide us into showing rather than telling what a character in fiction or a real-life person in nonfiction is thinking, feeling, planning, and so forth. But...
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Why Not Comic Books?
Back when I was a kid (you remember the Dark Ages, don’t you?), teachers and many parents were down on comic books. Teachers wanted kids to read “real” books, not comics. My own mother, more than satisfied with the copious numbers of books I read, had no objection to my reading comics as long as...