Obstruction Junction- What’s Your Function? As a grammar teacher, I love showing my classes those old school Schoolhouse Rock videos that informed much of our knowledge in between Scooby Doo cartoons in the 1970’s. In fact, if it weren’t for Schoolhouse Rock, I’m pretty sure I, and many of my late 40’s/early 50’s brethren, wouldn’t […]
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A Furry Situation I love when readers send me ideas for topics for TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less. More often than not, they tend to be clever and thoughtful suggestions. This past week, a friend of mine texted me and said that I should write about high school students who have started to “identify” […]
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The Delicate Art of Letting Go In full transparency, a rare glimpse behind the curtain as to how I write TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less, I will often pen less topical columns and save them for a later date, when nothing particularly pressing is occurring that I feel a desperate need to opine about. […]
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