Capitalization and Punctuation

Capitalization and punctuation are automatic to me. It is what I was taught years ago, and I cannot break the habit. Haiku is difficult for others insist on no apostrophes or caps. It is difficult to unlearn what has been instilled and boy was this instilled. All of those quizzes and tests, which I thought were a waste of time. Then I began reading other people’s writings, and I was stunned. Two, to, and too are incorrectly used so many times; too many times. I get a sense that apostrophes are thrown in willy-nilly for no good reason. How many times have I seen it’s when they do not mean it is, rather ownership. To not capitalize a proper noun infuriates my internal gauges. I am incensed when punctuation is off kilter also. Checking and rechecking my own work to an idiotic degree. I am such a product of the sixties, growing up in the corn state. The home of the ITBS.