Once again, I made it my resolution to try to keep track of all the words I have to look up in the dictionary. This would probably be much easier if I used an old-fashioned…
Browsing Category Writing
For Peabo: The best of Vodo, Summer 2011
“They take a story and turn it into like Algebra, which is why nobody wants to read,” Vodo on English teachers. “You know if you’re boring or not,” Vodo. “The word panties was in there…
The bright, shiny penny & David Foster Wallace
Thursday I had the pleasure and honor to be interviewed by a delightful young woman from the UofM for the English Major’s blog. Or something like that. I can’t exactly remember what the focus of…
Actual quotes uttered by the old sexist in my writing class
“Why are there so many women in this class?” “It was overwritten, boring, and I didn’t like it.” “I just didn’t care for any of it.” “Well, I’m not a woman so maybe women like…
Little House, Dawson’s Creek & the evolution of language
This is the inscription inside the cover of my copy of Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I cropped it out, but my phone number was on there too. Only seven…