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Some linguists think the Genesis verse “fill the earth and subdue it” should be “fill the earth and revere it;” six days ago I saw it...

We have our motives and justifications, we pleasure drivers. For one thing, we are counselled to be mindful, lest the minutiae of life...

There’s a low rail on the upper steps, no handgrip at all on the lower. Bonebreak Stair I call it, and hope that it doesn’t live up to its n

CanLit authors – and many are staggeringly talented, just wasting their talents in a doomed cause – might address the issues and conditions

My purpose however is not to document such pleasures, but to reveal a profound horror that lurks behind Tuscany’s sublime façade.

The oracles don’t end there. Sleep in, and you suddenly see it’s 7:07 and you should have been in the shower half an hour ago. LOL indeed!

Full disclosure: I’m an American, born in Seattle – dad a US naval officer, mom the daughter of a Canadian banker.

No doubt about it, the corvids - crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays - can be a nasty bunch. Ravens have been seen in Yellowstone Park,

My dog is not my possession, said the letter. He is my equal and my friend. I have no moral or ethical rights over him.

It is for this reason, that I do not authorize any authority anywhere to take my organs in the event of what appears to be my death.

I have long experienced these buildings at close quarters. And my response is: Tear the damned things down.

Hi all, and welcome to my new website. Here's some background: I loved SF as a kid, "but when I became a man, I put away childish...

Over the years, too, the odds of accidental death steadily accumulate. I grew up watching Loony Tunes, and know that somewhere out there ...

My middle son coined this term for me when he was seventeen: Once a month, he says, I lift my snout to the full moon and howl whommmm!

I was wondering how I could possibly go from semi-retirement to tackling all this when the phone rang.

Grammar rules are like another kind of prescriptive law: The criminal code. Both are useful to consult to avoid errors, or to diagnose...

There are two main ways of looking at English. You can be prescriptive, setting and enforcing strict rules of speech.