Okay, it's only one girl. But a young female person did just now call and leave a message on our land line's answering machine for N...

Yep, ol' maverick John McCain is a man of the people. He knows our pain. He knows how we live. Not! Take a tour of one of his little bu...

For your amusement, here's a poor drawing (mine) of what my husband, Ed, was working on for a large part of today: We don't have cen...

The afternoon mail just arrived, and in it was a postcard from Alaska. Says my mate, getting ready to start one of his several-times-a-day a...

Daniel G. Amen, a neuropsychiatrist and brain-imaging expert well known for his work with autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorde...

I haven't posted any photos of my granddaughter, Ana, in a while, so this shot's overdue. This is my adorable 16-month-old girl eati...

Sydney Schanberg , the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who has been reporting on foreign affairs about as long as I've been alive and ...

I am pleased as pumpkin chiffon praline pie* to announce that the second Copyediting-L (aka CE-L) cookbook, More Food for Thought , is avai...

MIAMI (AP)—Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry . At least that's the co...

Copyeditors edit for money and for the pleasure of dealing with words. But sometimes we do our work because we know just how much it helps a...

Earlier today, this was the predicted path of Hurricane Ike, which may make landfall tomorrow night. My sister, Becky (yes, my daughter is ...

And in the seventh year after the fall, the dust and debris of the towers cleared. And it became plain at last what had been wrought. For th...

Earlier this week, I posted a new entry from the files of My Husband the Master Cabinetmaker tm . Ed finished installing the dry bar–media ...

You know, I've been married to Ed for 15 years now, and I'm still quite impressed with his cabinetmaking skills. So it's time fo...

Hey, freelance copyeditors! Dithering about whether joining the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) is valuable? Well, dither no more. ...

If you know very little about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) or even nothing at all about it but are in a long-term relati...

Totally unprepared, unknown Sarah Palin, a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. That choice is the clearest sign yet tha...

Last night, Barack Obama gave the best damn speech he could've given. For all of those folks who constantly claim (falsely) that Obama ...

Hey, all of you American women watching the Democratic National Convention! Do you realize that we've had the right to vote for only 88 ...

You're never too old to do something stupid. I had recently set up a profile on Facebook . I've become addicted to playing the word ...