I decided I wanted to make Thai-inspired food as a theme for a Thursday night meal — Thai Thursday, anyone? So, I googled some recipes to get ideas and had to make changes as needed to suit the ingredients on hand. I had no desire to place a $30+ grocery order just to get two or three ingredients. First, I…

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Over the last couple of weeks, my Fall 2020 schedule has been lining up. Although I didn’t make the cut to be a funded PhD candidate, I’ve gotten classes lined up to continue building my career as a professor. Even a year ago I couldn’t have possibly imagined my life changing so drastically at the end of my Master’s degree…

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This week in one of my classes, I’m discussing the three main levels of diction with my student. Basically, there’s informal, Standard American English, and formal. For the sake of this freshman composition course, we don’t delve into the many variations of informal English diction, but I do plan to touch on those dialects here. Obviously Standard American English (known…

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Last year in April I took my family to see my old neighborhoods in College Point, New York. After visiting my favorite park and a little deli, we were going to find an old elementary school of mine. That’s when I heard THE jingle. Like one of Pavlov’s dogs, I immediately got excited — it’s Mister Softee! This franchise highlighted…

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