: About Me

Retired from banking; currently teaching freshman English in a local community college.
Grandfather of eight, I have an Associates Degree in Liberal Arts, an Associates Degree in Computer Programming,a Bachelors Degree in Theology, and a Masters Degree in English Education.

My passion is ...

English literature and the Bible

I know too much about ...

Quantum Mechanics

My parents always told me ...

Follow the "golden rule"

My childhood ambition ...

To be a cartoonist

My favorite memory ...

the night I kissed my future wife for the first time

Why I write ...

I must

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Dostoevsky/NCIS/Bluegrass music

My first job ...

Selling cars

My best moment ...

The night I gave my heart to Jesus Christ

My inspiration ...

The living Word of God

Arts & Humanities > Writing at Helium Capitalization and punctuation basics for Helium

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Punctuation is an essential facet of writing, although it is often overlooked. Why do we have punctuation rules? To make writing cumbersome for the writer? No! We have the rules to facilitate clarity, to aid the reading process, and to assist in emphasizing the exact intend message. My experience as a community college teacher has shown me that relatively few students understand the rules before coming to college. However, the rules are easy to learn - and use - once the basic patterns are understood. Here's how it goes. The easy ones are quotation marks, exclamation points, question ...

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