Running to win
What am I running for? I have real life goals now, for the first time since, well, ever. That’s not true, of course: I have had dreams my whole life, and ...
Author: Aldean
Who do the Irish think they are?
I dislike special treatment. Of course, I like it when I am the recipient of some sort of exceptional coddling, but on principle I have to object to it. And I...
Watching Doubt
It was just over an hour into Doubt (2008) before I caught one. The movie is set in 1964, and the snippets of Mass seem carefully accurate, both in tone and in ...
Conflicted spellings
Of all the written comments I have received on papers throughout my years of post-secondary education, one of my very favorites is from my college linguistics c...
Voice
I didn't really think about voice in my writing until my last year of college. I was taking a course with a professor I had previously had for my very first Eng...