Um, okay, I know. I haven't written in awhile. I could give you excuses--I actually have them. But you don't care and I'm not hurt that you don't care. You've got your stuff and I've got mine; let's leave it at that. But just in case the dearth of my voice in your blogosphere left such a hole that you went searching back through the archives (all 29 of them) to "hear" me yap, I want to clear something up. Some delightful (anonymous) friend made a comment a few posts back about my grammar. In friend's world, my grammar is single-handedly bringing down the education system in this country. Nay, across the globe! That is not why I stopped blogging. I also did not stop teaching writing, as this friend backhandedly suggested. So you can just heave a collective sigh of relief, readers. I'm still at it--poisoning your minds online and your children's in the classroom with my run on sentences and Oxford commas. Like a boss. I have