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Climbing the corporate latter
By Curtis Honeycutt Do you want to work your way from the mailroom to the corner office? You’ve got gumption, kid, so leave it to me. I’ll give you some swell advice that’ll have you […]
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Investigating fictional faceoffs
By Curtis Honeycutt Let’s talk rivalries. Everyone has an opinion on Coke versus Pepsi. How about werewolves against vampires? Do bears beat Battlestar Galactica? Hufflepuff or Gryffindor? DC versus Marvel? There are so many good […]
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Shortcut words: lazy or efficient?
By Curtis Honeycutt Americans like being the best at things. We’re the best at baseball, jazz, freedom, national parks – pretty much anything Ken Burns has already covered. Yes, living in the Land of Opportunity […]
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Spilling the tea on sentence fragments
By Curtis Honeycutt Blame it all on my British roots, but I’ve never preferred coffee. I like hanging out in coffee shops. I don’t mind smelling like I’ve hung out in a coffee shop all […]
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A little bit lower now — decapitalization as a writing style
By Curtis Honeycutt As soon as I wrote a column on Caps Lock, the lowercase, a.k.a. “minuscule” letters, demanded an essay of their own. The irony is that both of my Apple keyboards have decapitalized […]
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A tip of the cap to Caps Lock
By Curtis Honeycutt Why are you yelling? Have you seen someone post a social media update in all caps? It’s not a good look. In fact, posting in all caps makes it seem like we’re […]
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The floral moral of the story
By Curtis Honeycutt As spring turns to summer, I love taking leisurely laps around my house to see what’s in bloom. Nearly every day, I find a new flower opening its doors for business to […]
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The great domestic pet debate, solved
By Curtis Honeycutt Are you a dog person or a cat person? This is the age-old debate. Dogs tend to be extroverted and needy, while cats are generally independent-yet-murderous. Pick your poison. My wife and […]
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A rose of purple prose arose
By Curtis Honeycutt When you think about the color purple, what comes to mind? Probably the movie “The Color Purple.” That makes sense. Beyond that, you might think of Prince’s “Purple Rain” or maybe even […]
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Skip to the endonym
By Curtis Honeycutt Don’t you love it when linguistics and geography collide? No, I’m not talking about the town of Noun, Alaska, where people, places, things and ideas live in harmony; I’m talking about different […]