If you want to be a better writer, try skipping today’s bestsellers, and read one from the 1930’s instead. Or read something besides fiction in order to find your own metaphors and perspective. Plus, just because a city’s name looks familiar doesn’t...
Shelly from Dallas grew up calling the shared center turn lane the chicken lane, a term that fits the unnerving possibility of two drivers entering it from opposite directions for left turns. The image comes from the game of chicken, in which two...

