Nouns don't seem to be very interesting.  Of all parts of speech, people typically think the discussion of nouns is the most boring.  After all, nouns are just, well, nouns.  They show no action, they don't modify anything, they're just things.  But nouns are brilliant.  

Two of my ongoing challenges are grammar and punctuation.  Quite frankly, I am horrible at both.  This is not by design.  This is simply because many years have elapsed since I have learned grammar usage rules.  So, things like dangling participles, subordinate clauses and prepositions, while somewhere within the recesses of my mind, are difficult to recall.  And therefore, my writing suffers.  I am not unique in this regard.  Each day, as a society, our grammar and punctuation suffers.  And we allow this to happen because we readily adopt the popular shortcuts used for texting and email.   With texting, by and large, full sentence use, punctuation and spelling have just simply been discarded.  And this is a shame.   Things like OMG and LMAO are commonplace abbreviation for more colorful terms.  I find myself taking these very same shortcuts.  It's easy.  But unfortunately, the message suffers when we do this.  Sometimes the emotion, the passion, the feelings behind the message is lost in a jumbo of consonants.  And I, for one, say stop it.