Making Lemonade

Following up on Busy Mom’s lead, I present an often-confused pair of related verbs: “lie” versus “lay.” I find that even people whose use of the language is otherwise impeccable can confuse these at times.
Remember these two points:

“Lie” is not what you do to something, it’s simply something that you do.
“Lay” is not a [...]

I had no idea, when I ran across a copy of Mem Fox’s Where is the Green Sheep? in a children’s thrift shop here in Podunk Falls, that I was about to instigate Nate’s latest obsession. Between the thrift store pricing and my vague recollection of positive reviews from fellow parents, I bought it [...]

homonyzed - adj. To mis-type a word as another identical-sounding word, even though one knows that they are two separate words and are spelled differently.
Example: “Yeah, I know the difference between ‘reign’ and ‘rein.’ I just got homonyzed.”