“Noun!” Instructor Jennifer Crystal pointed at one of my classmates. “Lion!” my fellow student immediately responded. Jennifer wrote it on the board. “Okay, adjective,” she gestured to the next person. “Beautiful!” Some of us were quicker at this game than others. I think for “verb,” I finally came up with “punch.” After several go-rounds, we […]
Tag: Grub Street
For Love of Moxie
Bodaciously blue, she is a baby butch. Ceding genuine butch to my friend Ruth's larger Subaru Crosstrek, I steadfastly maintain that my Impreza Sport, named Moxie and tricked out with extra trim and interior delights, is cuter.
Humor: A Hard Way to Write an Essay
Jennifer Crystal challenged our Grub Street class to write a 500-1,000 word essay “using humor to make a point.” In speech and writing, I pepper people with puns and jokes. But humor for revelation? In our assignment from Writing Well, William Zinsser demonstrates comic devices. To question women’s public adornment with hair curlers in the […]
