My inspiration for this week’s post was an article I found on NPR.com. In it, reporter Colin Dwyer discusses a recent court ruling favoring dairy producer delivery drivers in Portland, Maine. It turns out the use of a serial comma, or to be more precise, the lack of one, may end up costing the dairy a pretty penny! Before I get into the details of the case, I want to discuss the good old serial comma; known by many as the Oxford comma, and the decades, nay, centuries-long con

How can you not love a woman who responds with the title of this week's post to a letter from an editor reminding her that she’d missed yet another story deadline? And this is only one in a vast collection of brilliant quips the diminutive Mrs. Dorothy Parker is famous for. She is, without a doubt, my favorite writer in all of history (or at least in all the works I have read). It is not just her stories that I find poignant and insightful, I love the biting satire of her poe

That’s what I’m wondering after having read Claire Fallon’s article Obama, Possible Aspiring-Novelist-In-Chief, Once Wrote Short Fiction for the Huffington Post. How awesome is that? And I’m not being partisan here; I also love the fact that President GWB discovered he has a remarkable talent for painting. He even honored military veterans by painting portraits of them that are displayed at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. I’m just more excited about Barry’s writing as

In last week’s post I discussed whether the Trump White House resembles a Shakespearean comedy, or worse, a tragedy, or worse still, both. I guess the world shall have to wait ‘with breath that is bated’ for the answer to that one…. In the meantime, I want to impart my love for all things Shakespeare in the hope of getting you excited too! Noooo! Please don’t stop reading just yet. He really is one of the cleverest writers ever, so don’t let your eyes glaze over with the mere