Part of today's chatter on one professional editors' e-mail list that I subscribe to has been on a fascinating topic: To what extent...

Get annoyed when people say, "Oh, I love to read/play with type. I could be an editor/indexer/designer"? Then this cartoon 's ...

I haven't posted photos of my granddaughter, Ana, in a while. Here she is at age 9 months with my daughter, Becky, and my son-in-law, Li...

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This burns me up: Blacks in Texas—the state I grew up in—are still having to march for the right to vote. From a post yesterday on Burnt O...

I'm so honored! Jackie at Nursing Your Kids has named EditorMom an excellent blog for being "interesting and timely." I read...

Now I know why in wishing someone luck, people (at least in the U.S.) often say, "Break a leg." It works! About a week and a half ...

Breast milk contains stem cells! How cool is that?! Says an article in ScienceAlert , from Australia and New Zealand: The Perth scientist wh...

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This the e-mail that I just sent to my brother and his partner, who live in Texas: I'm asking you two guys to do me a big favor: If you...

For "civilians"—those who haven't lived with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD)—to accept that AD/HD is real and...

Ed and I live in a Super Tuesday state, so right after we got our youngest off to school on Tuesday, we drove over to the elementary school,...

This country has been in a clinical depression for 8 long years. The reason Barack Obama is going to win is that he touches our hearts and t...

Because life around my house is so hectic these days, other bloggers keep beating me to the punch in articulating why I will be voting for ...

Even the Lolcats ' imitators are tired of Bushco. Bush state of the union Lolcats EditorMom

If you intend to use the services of the U.S. drugstore chain Rite Aid , you might want to be aware of something really stupid that at least...

Woohoo! If I were in good enough shape, I'd be doing cartwheels right now. I've posted ( here , here , here , and here , if not even...

Several members of Iraq Veterans Against the War , speaking at an event in an Upstate New York café recently, said that committing war crime...

Allegations of plagiarism leveled against romance novelist Cassie Edwards have been in the news lately, causing those unfamiliar with boo...

Still buried under work , as seems to perpetually be the case for me lately, I did take time to read Rebecca Traister's piece in Salon ...