What does it mean to “not become you?”  It means it doesn’t make you look good, support your cause or generally put you in a good light.    Profanity in this context means you look cheap, unsubstantial and weak-minded. I am reminded of the thrill we got as kids when we used ‘dirty’ words.  We thought we were both cool

I’ve watched the advance of AI technologies with a mix of admiration, skepticism, hope, and frustration. As a writer, I battled spell- and grammar-check. After years of writing bad prose, studying the craft, immersing myself in classics of the trade, including Strunk & White (The Elements of Style), Harry Shaw (Punctuate it Right) and William Safire (Fumble Rules), I learned

It sounds caring. Supportive. Kind. In my estimation it is insidiously the opposite. Needing a safe space suggests that we cannot handle life as it comes. That the evils of reality are simply too much. That there are people so perverse, so egotistically myopic, and so callous to the suffering of others that we need shelter from them. Undoubtedly, on