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Prior to this century the youth of this nation were taught to always double space after a period, colon and some other rarely used punctuation marks. That’s the way I was taught in my high school keyboarding class (remember the home keys?). Up until the 21st Century this was a common typographical convention used by [...]

Writing well is much easier said than done. Say you’ve spent hours researching and writing a paper or a blog post, only to reread it the next morning and discover it’s a total snore. It’s tempting to just throw in the towel, especially if you don’t consider yourself a word person. But don’t relegate something you’ve worked [...]

When I graduated from college with an English degree (without a teaching certificate) at the beginning of the recession, I surveyed my known job-prospects, juxtaposed these against my debt-to-income ratio, and came to the devastating conclusion that I would have to work as a bartender for the rest of my life. Continuing along this trajectory, [...]

As a sci-fi movie fan, I seem to have a thing for humanized robots. No matter my opinion of actor/governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the reformed version of the Terminator still ranks among my favorite Top 10 non-humans. Other “heartless” characters that have a place in my heart include the nerdy C3-PO of Star Wars fame and [...]