Here's the latest episode in the soap opera that life around here has become: You probably remember that Ed has been working part time f...

It's Friday—how the heck did this Friday manage to show up so quickly after the last one?—and I'm hoping that our health-care provid...

I have to have my office in my kitchen because there is no other available space in my home. But there are occasional compensations. This wa...

If your job keeps you out and about enough that you're not really a desk jockey—or you have a friend or family member who has a very phy...

Sometimes the best client referrals come from colleagues you've never met. One listmate from an e-mail list for editorial professionals ...

My beautiful granddaughter, Ana, 21 months old, fresh out of bed this morning and jabbering away: granddaughter Ana grandparenting Editor...

What a nice way to begin a workday! I got this e-mail this morning from an author for whom I edited a large chapter in his autobiography: Th...

I edit so many medical-journal articles that I forget each of them very quickly after having finished them. I guess that that's my brain...

Hee, hee! It's sing-along time. If you edit or perform another editorial task instead of writing, just adapt the lyrics where necessary....

So, annoyed with the front-desk staff in the office of Ed's primary-care doc dragging things out regarding the newfound colloid cyst in...

Things have taken a bit of a soap-opera-like turn in our family.* Friday, Ed had just arrived to work an evening shift for his part-time job...

Get ready to sharpen your editorial skills and make yourself more desirable as an employee or freelancer! The lineup of spring courses offer...

I don't go to spas; can't afford them. I don't get manicures; I prefer short, unadorned nails. I don't get pedicures; see ...

Hot damn! The new U.S. president is already earning his pay. Obama has just frozen salaries for two years for White House staffers who make...

Hear ye, hear ye! The Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) has lined up some online classes for you: Magazine Writing Basics (online, 4...

The current trend of U.S. political leaders closing their speeches with "God bless America" seems to me to be dismissive of those ...

10:33 a.m. — I am attempting to work today, on what should be a national holiday: the inauguration of a new president. This one is mature, ...

I'll admit it: I had a fairly insular, provincial life as a child growing up on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Someone calling my childhood ho...

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I'm so pleased to be 14-year-old Neil's mother. He got home from school a half hour ago and volunteered to use the snow blower to cl...