May 25, 2012

Flying to Phoenix the other day, this notice stopped me dead in my tracks at security. I had to throw away all my snow globes… 🙁 But I did feel a lot safer, of course…

March 21, 2012

The Bookseller is an English magazine devoted (of course) to book-selling and all related subjects. It’s well worth a look, not least because they organize a contest every year to find  the Oddest Book Title of the Year.is year marks the 30th anniversary, and there are some amazing (or appalling, depending on your point of…

February 17, 2012

I know you’ve all been pining for an update about Ernest and Mabel, the two marble lions that my husband Jay bought in a mad moment in Vietnam. (Click here to read that post if you missed it.) When last seen, they were standing among a forest of other white marble flora and fauna (not…

February 7, 2012

I’m always keen to improve my writing, and with examples like the ones below, I shouldn’t have no problems…The first set of rules was written by Frank L. Visco and originally published in the June 1986 issue of Writers’ Digest. I found them on the Plain Language website, put out by the government to help…

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