How to Take a Wrong Turn to Lube

Yet again from the American media. CNN, in fact. Let’s just face the sad truth. There are no reputable news sources anymore. Anyway, whatever your opinion on what Lincoln University is doing, I hope we all can agree that the headline “College’s too-fat-to-graduate rule under fire” is inflammatory and misleading. Also, what’s with CNN’s titles…

So, today we were discussing David Caruso. What else would we be doing on a Monday? And I said, when writing action dialogue, one should always think, “What would David Caruso say?” And then Shawna said, when writing action scenes, one should always think, “What would David Caruso do?” You know, like ‘What would Jesus…

Outside the house that I grew up in, there was this massive tree, one of the biggest I’ve ever seen in a residential neighborhood. The roots of that tree were so strong that they were intrusive. The two squares of sidewalk nearest the tree’s base sat at a seventy-degree angle against the trunk, and the…