SPELL THAT, BEEYOTCH: I pride myself on my spelling. Sure, I make the occasional typo here and there, but in general I can spell with the best of 'em. An old colleague once observed, "You're the only person I know who trash talks about his spelling."

Still, I'm having a big mental block of late: occasion.

Luckily I pulled it off up there in the second sentence. But the word occasion more than occasionally gives me pause. Something about the 'double consonant' construction just won't stick in my brain.

Occasion, occasion, occasion.

Makes for some thrilling blogging, don't it?