Here's a short video on what some clients try to do to freelancers in today's economy: Learn how ( here and here ) to keep this fro...

For the last few days, colleagues on an editing-related e-mail discussion list have been posting about words and phrases that they dislike. ...

On editing-related e-mail lists I subscribe to, some listmates have often recommended sitting on an exercise ball, rather than a desk chair ...

Here are some shots of the flowers in my yard, for your enjoyment. They were taken by Neil, my 14-year-old son. Top left are blooms from our...

Ever have one of those perfect afternoons? I'm having one now. My two sons are home after school, and because it's Friday, they have...

Let the massive confetti shower begin! Annual subscriptions to the new searchable online version of the 10th edition of the AMA Manual of ...

I learn some odd things while editing. Today's surprise: some hyperosmotic laxatives aren't used for colonoscopy prep because fermen...

The grape hyacinths in my flower bed always make me smile. They look delicate, but they're hardy, and they're such a rich bluish pur...

It's Earth Day today. Professional tree trimmers are cutting down a huge, lovely old maple tree in the front yard to the right of my hou...

This morning during get-ready-for-school time, Ed and I were teasing Jared about how giggly and silly he was being rather than focusing on t...

This bodes well for the future: Whichever of us, my husband Ed or me, is up at the god-awful hour of 6:30 a.m. when Neil, our ninth-grader, ...

Pinch me, please—I think I'm dreaming. Early this morning, I got a call from the case handler at the offices of the bank that holds Ed...

This video (a bit more than 11 minutes long) makes it very easy to understand how the current credit crisis came to be: I think that it'...

Here's a cool video —a serious one, not a jokey one—about one method by which a hardcover book can be bound. (It's from C-SPAN, whic...

I am very grateful for a discussion currently going on on an e-mail list that I subscribe to. It's about suicide—who has ever contemplat...

Those of you who write or edit manuscripts intended for medical journals may be interested in the new policy statement , from the World Asso...

Hey, editing professionals and editor wannabees: If you subscribe to the Copyediting‑L (CE‑L) e-mail list, have you been following the ...

Happy Friday, all. Here's my final, wonderful update on this topic: Ed was told by his neurologist this morning that he will need neithe...

Our mortgage-holder has finally put up an online form through which people in financial distress can apply to get their monthly payments red...

Well, Ed's done with his brain scans for now and is headed off to work for the evening. On his way there, he'll stop back by the neu...