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Curtis Honeycutt

"I like to think of quotation marks as T. rex fingers, demarcating the words inside as special - kind of like the lucky underwear you only wear when you want to have an exceptionally awesome day."

Curtis Honeycutt makes grammar fun in his nationally syndicated column, "Grammar Guy," which appears weekly in more than 100 newspapers.

His amusing musings about gender-inclusive pronouns, prepositions at the end of sentences and the dreaded autocorrect function on IPhones garnered third place in the 2018 column contest sponsored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists for print publications over 50,000.

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New format, same laughs

Laugh Out Loud: 40 Women Humorists Celebrate Then and Now…Before We Forget, a nostalgic, humorous look at life through the ages, is now available as an ebook. Published by Allia Zobel Nolan in association with the University of Dayton's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, the book was launched at the spring workshop, with half of the essayists in attendance for a book signing. The Kindle version is just $3.99, about the cost of a cappuccino. The popular paperback sells for $14.95, and ...
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Dressed down

I bought a dress online, a long black summer dress that I thought would make me look earthy and graceful. Dresses are foreign to me but I keep trying, like all the years I kept going back to Spanish classes thinking this next time I would become completely bilingual. Buenos dias! The dress, so chic and classy in the photo, could double as an emergency tent. It's that voluminous and heavy. Maybe it's water repellent, I don't know. It's a lot of dress, folds and folds of black with a high e ...
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