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I love epigrams. The English critic and poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, said, “What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole,…
Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high…
No matter where man is, man always finds something to love. Sweet, salt, wine, water, beauty, truth, company, solitude, greed,…
My older daughter has a blog and it’s well worth visits on a regular basis. I am taken by her eye…
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The top ten most irritating phrases, according to researchers at Oxford University: 1 – At the end of the…
You may wonder about the secret, or not-so-secret, motivations that drive writers. Personally, I always thought most of it lay in validation:…