(A link to the film is at the bottom of this post)
A while ago, the luminescent Joy Guerrieri Borgardt and I began writing a script for what we thought would be a web series. (more…)
Category: Humor
The Real Dealth, Bad Hair Weeks, and MIB
I do most of my prewriting by hand, and much of my work this week involved exploring the concept of “death” – which I keep adding the letter “l” to and writing as dealth. I looked up “dealth” and learned it is an obsolete word meaning “a share dealt out.”
Obsolete words are such a romantic thing, reinforcing the idea of language being a living thing. The word “obsolete” itself was the first vocabulary word-of-the-day (we called them “Super Words”) we had back in sixth grade. Tip of the hat to Mrs. Proctor, and no, I don’t remember what the other 179 words were.
Which is all just to say that I fell down a few rabbit holes this week.
Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Contest
I am humbled and thrilled to announce that my essay “MAGAP US Exceptionalism” received an honorable mention in the Mark Twain Royal Nonesuch Writing Contest. Here is a link to my essay. Here is a link to the list of winners, their essays, and information … Continue reading Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Contest
