One man’s joke has become his mission: to give each word a rhyming definition. Chris Strolin was teasing English buffs in an online forum years ago when he said the dictionary should be rewritten in ...

What is a limerick? These silly poems make a really fun writing exercise. Limericks are a fun and timeless way to tell short, silly stories. They can be about anything, as long as they follow their ...

And learned a few things they’d not known, see? Full disclosure: We wrote that one. And it’s true that the word poetry doesn’t necessarily bring fun and laughter to mind. The exception to the rule?

Bindy Bitterman, a Chicago-area woman in her 80s, recently emailed me to ask what I thought of limericks. I am a fan, as is Bitterman, who subsequently sent me a smattering of the limericks she writes ...

One man’s joke has become his mission: to give each word a rhyming definition. Chris Strolin was teasing English buffs in an online forum years ago when he said the dictionary should be rewritten in ...

Limericks take their name from a medieval city in midwest Ireland. More precise details of their origins are, like many Irish mornings, foggy. The lilting, five-line poems are centuries old, often ...

You wouldn’t think the word poop could be used poetically. But when Bonnie Formentini, a retired Sunnyside schools teacher, was gathering facts for her newly published children’s book, she found a way ...

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Mere moments after stepping through the doors of the Conrad Dublin, you’ll understand why the hotel is a frequent luxury-traveler favorite and sits atop various best-of lists. It occupies an ideal ...