The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.