William I. Atkinson
Just Beauties
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...
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William I. Atkinson
Jan 28, 2021
The Mindful Driver
We have our motives and justifications, we pleasure drivers. For one thing, we are counselled to be mindful, lest the minutiae of life...
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William I. Atkinson
Jan 12, 2021
The Sprites of Bonebreak Stair
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
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William I. Atkinson
Jan 5, 2021
Am I Not a Man?
CanLit authors – and many are staggeringly talented, just wasting their talents in a doomed cause – might address the issues and conditions
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William I. Atkinson
Nov 29, 2020
A Terror in Tuscany
My purpose however is not to document such pleasures, but to reveal a profound horror that lurks behind Tuscany’s sublime façade.
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William I. Atkinson
Nov 1, 2020
Tick Talk: the Time Display as Oracle
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!
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William I. Atkinson
Mar 3, 2020
An American in Calgary
Full disclosure: I’m an American, born in Seattle – dad a US naval officer, mom the daughter of a Canadian banker.
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William I. Atkinson
Feb 17, 2020
A Murder of Crows
No doubt about it, the corvids - crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays - can be a nasty bunch. Ravens have been seen in Yellowstone Park,
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William I. Atkinson
Jan 15, 2020
My House is Not Your House. In Fact, It's Not Even My House.
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.
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William I. Atkinson
Dec 13, 2019
Hold the Knife: Rethinking Organ Donation
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.
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William I. Atkinson
Dec 2, 2019
End the Architectural Brutality. Please.
I have long experienced these buildings at close quarters. And my response is: Tear the damned things down.
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William I. Atkinson
Oct 10, 2019
Literacy x2
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...
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William I. Atkinson
Oct 1, 2019
A Disciplined Imagination: the Fiction of Science Fiction
Over the years, too, the odds of accidental death steadily accumulate. I grew up watching Loony Tunes, and know that somewhere out there ...
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William I. Atkinson
Sep 24, 2019
Notes From a Grammar Werewolf
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!
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William I. Atkinson
Apr 15, 2011
Please Stand for the Stufessor
I was wondering how I could possibly go from semi-retirement to tackling all this when the phone rang.
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William I. Atkinson
Dec 19, 2010
On Being Proud-Ass!
Grammar rules are like another kind of prescriptive law: The criminal code. Both are useful to consult to avoid errors, or to diagnose...
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William I. Atkinson
Dec 5, 2010
Rules Are Made to be Broken
There are two main ways of looking at English. You can be prescriptive, setting and enforcing strict rules of speech.
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