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>One thing leads to another. Since that’s characteristic of life, it should be characteristic of our storytelling. A character wants something but faces obstacles of increasing plight—a series of actions…

Frank Ball used to collect stamps, coins, and rocks. Now he’s a collector of words with unexpected meanings, which he calls “daffynitions.” Here are five that were posted recently: Agnostic…

Writing sprinkled with humor is wonderful medicine, for pleasant words are like honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones (Proverbs 16:24). We know God has a sense…

From the time she was Miss North Carolina in 1963, Jeanne Robertson has been entertaining audiences with her funny stories. We laugh because her humor is based on real-life events.…

A spoonerism is a play on words in which sounds are switched between words in a phrase, as in looking at a clear, sunny sky and saying, “Isn’t it a…

In the 1940s, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello performed their baseball comedy routine many times—on stage, radio, and television. One version plays continually in the National Baseball Hall of Fame…

Frank Ball used to collect stamps, coins, and rocks. Now he’s a collector of words with unexpected meanings, which he calls “daffynitions.” Here are five that were posted recently: Control…

A man went to his priest to find out what he was doing wrong. “I’m desperate,” he said. “Please tell me exactly what words I should use to get my…

If we can make sweet lemonade out of sour lemons, we shouldn’t be surprised when someone can use clanging items from the auto shop to make sweet harmony. Tom Kaufmann…

Our words perfectly represent to us what we have in mind. If it weren’t so, we wouldn’t write them. However, how our words are understood by our audience is an…