At least they were dry. That’s a little more forgivable.

If you want to be technical about it, while diction can refer to a person’s choice of words, the term is more commonly associated with enunciation and speaking clearly. If I wanted to be so petty as to point out the error, I would have informed Erica that she made a homophone mistake.

I actually don’t have a URL because, as you noted, I am VERY busy, but you can be sure that if I did, you wouldn’t find any grammatical, spelling, or diction mistakes (or typos), because I would take the time to review my work before I send it off for the world to see.

The one legitimate criticism you make is that my comment is rather petty: guilty as charged. Basically, I spent a bunch of time reading the political posts on this blog, realized that there wasn’t enough time in the day to correct all of the misguided and untenable claims, and concluded that the one service I could provide was correcting a small error like this.

I like to think of myself like a doctor who realizes he can’t cure every patient, but says to himself, “At least I can cure THIS one!”

Erica, I can completely relate to your plight! It is tough dealing with kids, cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc., while the other adults in the house don’t help. Or when they do, it ends up creating more work for you (like cleaning up moisturizer). Everyone needs to let off some steam. At least you realize that your hurtful words don’t help. Next time, skip the mean words and save the poor Lucky Charms.