You Don't Say

A crime has been committed.

Among those who labor on holidays are writers and editors at daily newspapers.

If you are old enough, you were probably taught the "due to" crotchet.

I used to teach my editing students at Loyola Maryland a nice little word, dilemma.

The porch at our front door is small, holding a round table, a small side table, and four chairs.

This week someone on Twitter quoted a tweet from a fellow journalist: "Not to be dramatic, but the day @APStylebook made it okay to say 'over' when it should be 'more than' was humanity's worst day."

On the first day of my editing class at Loyola University Maryland, I asked the students to provide some basic information--class year, hometown, phone number where you can be reached.

Note to the reader: This post is entirely personal; you may well choose to skip it.

Let us acknowledge things about our national anthem.

During the fair weather this week I have been reading The Iliad in Emily Wilson's translation on the front porch.

It took many conversations, but my wife, Kathleen Capcara, finally perfected a response.

A headline in The Guardian says that the son of a man who was deported is now "graduating high school."

I had occasion to get in touch the with Comptroller of Maryland's office with an inquiry about a refund on our state income tax, and I was reminded of the oddity of that word in English.

If you have not been on Twitter lately, and I know that many of you have left it in disgust, you will not have seen that the silly season is starting early.

My doctor wants an MRI scan of my hip, and his office called and set up an appointment at a nearby location next week.

Ever unable to help myself, I responded to an online post in which someone was carping about the use of loan as a verb.

A few days ago an irate reader vented his spleen online over someone who used further to mean at a greater distance.

If you make no other gesture this day toward clarity and economy in prose, deleting ongoing will store up treasure for you in Heaven.

Perhaps your introduction to American history through high school was like mine: the discovery by white people from Europe of a vast land to be their own continental manifest destiny (once the current inhabitants were edged out); yes, there was slavery for

50th: This, in 1826, is the one everyone remembers because Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died coincidentally on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

To the reader: I wrote this for The Sun in 2012, headed "Take me to your leadership."

In yesterday's unseasonable warmth I spent part of the afternoon on the porch, reading The Private Patient (P.D.

Let me be clear.

On a weekday afternoon in a quiet bar, a glass of Smithwick's is one of the benisons of retirement.

Last week I lost a friend of forty years.

When you are supplying attribution to a direct quote, it's best to follow two simple patterns.