Gordaen's Blog

Stuck in shoe bottoms, tiny rocks make their escape into your clean home. Those living in glass houses should take shoes off at the door. I wrote the first part and classmate Julia Teichet wrote the Renga (the last two lines).

Electricity, the static build-up unseen until it goes, “Pop!”

I try to not be too critical of English errors, but sometimes it is hard to overlook them. I bought new baking sheets recently and glued to them was a piece of thin cardboard with generic info. Now, I’m sure 90% of people never look at this stuff, but I started to read it while [...]

When I saw the “Zoo fears as polar bear eats cubs” headline, I was intrigued. I haven’t been reading the news much lately, because it always seems to be filled with politicians doing the opposite of what they are saying. Thinking this would be an interesting change, I read through the article only to be [...]

One of the easiest ways to sound more intelligent is to use “who” and “whom” correctly. If the Internet is any indication, the majority of people have no idea what the difference is or think that “whom” is the more formal version of “who.” It’s really just a matter of subject or object (in most [...]