Swearing Off Irony

Here's a Mid-Year's Resolution. I'm going to cut back on ironic, sardonic comments in my daily-life conversations. I've come to feel that that oblique kind of chat, is hindering my fully feeling and expressing my real reactions. That can't be good for my writing.

So I'm going to try an experiment with full-time sincerity--not total disclosure, of course, but just being direct about what I do say. Maybe, too, it will prevent the misunderstandings that sometimes occur when I cleverly say the opposite of what I mean.