My granddaughter recently remarked that she thought my voice had changed over the 14 years of her lifetime, that I now sounded “elderly.”...

When I was maybe seven or eight, around the time that my parents bought my family's first TV, I often watched a morning children’s show...

What’s in a book’s name? Would William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” by any other name seem as sad and ironic? Probably not. Book titles...

It’s the most infuriatingly common misuse and overuse of a word I hear from my millennial (description, not judgment) kids, and on news...

The pen is mightier than the sword. The deliberate use and misuse of words shape thought, promote biases or dismiss or minimize or...

I'm an eclectic reader of fiction and nonfiction and sometimes the in-between. Here are some of my favorite writers: Colum McCann Toni...