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 ...

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 ...

There is a statue of James Joyce in Dublin, Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize, and Frank McCourt got the Pulitzer. None of those great Irish writers, however, won a tour group bus limerick contest on ...