This essay is found in full at my Substack, The Appreciator. This is the first section of it. It is very long and works best on Substack....

Last week, my good friend JD Clapp and I had a discussion on dialect. He asked if I would write about using it correctly, and I told him...

If you listened to episode one of my new podcast last week, you probably heard Sheldon Lee Compton and me discussing the many issues...

So, I stayed with my dad sometimes when I was young, maybe four or five. Probably more like four. My dad, this man I’ve spent years...