Janet DePalma
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Janet DePalma
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Retired Doctor of Audiology. Traveler, feminist mother and grandmother, gardener, radical thinking science and science fiction lover.
Me too.
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Yes. We didn’t live where there were street lights. At dusk my mother stuck her head out the front door and bellowed my name twice.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
That is when I cried.
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Worms are insulted. All the work they do being our silent partners, enriching and aerating the soil. They have a purpose. They never shirk their responsibilities.
October 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Walnuts make my tongue sore after two or three bites.
October 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh Jesus. That hurt.
October 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
So, in answer to your question, yes a lot of people use this vernacular . Sorry about repeat posting.
October 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Most of the enslaved in the US were from west Africa. This region has languages that regularly omit the verb /to be/. The habits of African American Vernacular English are the result of social forces, but rest upon perfectly valid linguistic knowledge .
October 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This has to do with copular verbs that link a predicate to the subject. The most common verb of this type is “to be”. Often other verbs like “needs“ or “wants” will become the link, while the verb to be is omitted. The transformational grammar here reveals the sentence; It needs “to be “ washed .
October 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Tim, watching the garden from his favorite place.
October 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The sun beats down as I lie on my bench.
I can always hear them talk…
Me, I’m just a lawn mower.
You can tell me by the way I walk.

Freshman year of university. Ahhhh, good times.
October 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
October 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Weigh Hey, tow ‘em away!
The Lincoln Park Pirates are we….
October 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM