The English language is resplendent with homophones—words which are spelled differently but pronounced alike. By some estimates, there are more than four hundred such conundrums. Examples are the words ail and ale, bate and bait, cheap and cheep, and so on. My favorite pair is cereal and serial. A misuse of this duo gives a…
I’ll add a humming bird feeder.
I don’t know how long I’ve been writing a monthly blog for RMFW. But I save my drafts in a Word file and right now there’s over 90,000 words in the file, which means I’ve written a whole book’s worth of posts. At this point I worry I have run out new things to say…
One If you told me thirty years ago that Rick Rubin would one day be my spirit guide, well, I would have laughed pretty hard. Yeah, the guy who has produced albums for Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Slayer, The Cult, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joan Jett, Johnny Cash, Nine Inch Nails and many others. But…
