Despite what the evening news on the major networks would have us believe, a good number of U.S. soldiers are refusing to fight the criminal...

In searching PubMed to verify a reference to a medical journal article cited in an article on how to treat hemorrhoids, I came across an ar...

This video of how a book is bound will have college grads rushing to get into publishing and bookbinding. My days as a freelance copyeditor...

Ooh, I love it when this happens! I'm doing a substantive ESL (English as a second language) edit of a medical journal article written b...

This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for many people and things, in addition to those I listed in last year’s Thanksgiving post . My first grandc...

Well, well, well. O.J. Simpson's book won't be sold after all, nor will his interview by his publisher, Judith Regan, be broadcast ...

If you live on New York's Long Island , in Connecticut, or in New Jersey, you won't want to miss gorgeous holiday music sung by the ...

I'm so excited! My home looks like new on the outside. The bulk of the outside work is done. We just need a new steel door with a window...

Maybe I'm deluded; maybe I just don't get it. But my approach has worked quite well for me for nearly 12 years of freelancing , so m...

Well, publisher Judith Regan talks a good talk, but I don't think I buy what she says is her reason for publishing O.J. Simpson's b...

The whole family went to Stony Brook University 's Staller Center for the Arts last night to hear my daughter, Becky (the social-work-m...

I've written here about the renovation my home is undergoing. The last thing that will be done is the complete replacement of the upsta...

On Election Day, I posted shots of one of the projects My Husband the Master Cabinetmaker tm was working on, which included making corbels...

A New Hampshire woman has filed a complaint against two airlines because she was kicked off a plane for breastfeeding and refusing to cover...

German lawyers of inmates of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison are looking into whether former U.S. secretary of state Donald Rumsfeld can be cha...

Now the United States ranks behind South Africa in human rights. South Africa has legalized same-sex marriage . Shame on you, America. GLBT ...

On one of the editing-related e-mail lists I subscribe to wrote that for her, the best thing about freelancing is the chance to get to know ...

My house's exterior has now been completely converted from barn-red cedar shake shingles and asbestos tiles to an elegant soft moss gree...

When I must edit on a weekend, I'm very soothed by listening to Hearts of Space , "slow music for fast times." It's New A...

There are many malfunctions in the psyche of George W. Bush. One of them is his Oedipus complex, says Patti Davis , daughter of Ronald Reaga...