Language

Here's an excerpt from the piece I wrote for God's World News last week:

To grow up with English teachers in the house is to love wrangling over language. My family made a team sport of arguing minor points of grammar. Each of us had a specialty: Dad monitored pronoun-antecedent use; Mom policed comma rules; Sis investigated mistakes with as—as and so—as. And I, I took the road less traveled by concerning possessives before gerunds. Together we critiqued the punctuation, usage, spelling, and mechanics of much of the Southeast. No “Cantaloupe’s $2” sign went unnoticed; no church bulletin was safe.

 The piece ran on the website this week, and I've already received comments about it both from people I know as well as people I don't know. How rewarding to write and then hear from people who were encouraged by what you had to say.