Let’s eat Grandma! Let’s eat, Grandma! Yes, we’ve all seen this meme about the importance of the comma. Poor Grandma looks torn between running for the hills or serving up her famous chicken potpie with a smile. It’s funny and makes quite a few of us teachers laugh. But it also makes a point, and …
Writers are insane. It’s true. We really are. Think about it. Little people live inside our heads and talk to us. Incessantly. Sometimes we can ignore them because they honestly sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher—you know, “Wa-Wa-Wawa-Wa.” At times, they can be conversational, filling us in on juicy gossip about our neighbors who like to …