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the lower case, take 2: grocery store sign fails — fruit friday

Ever wonder who creates the signs in the grocery store? Or how they ever got put up in the first

The New Yorker has a great cartoon that explains it all. Enjoy! Cartoon courtesy of: The New Yorker

Make sure you know what kind of edit you are asking for. There are differences between a developmental edit (also known

Point of View The Narrator’s personality and perspective helps shape the reader’s perspective, and how the story unfolds. The reader

Fun Fact: When I was in Paris during my HS French trip (too many moons ago) I saw Michelle Lee

One of the oldest Carousels in Paris is located on the tiny Place St.-Pierre in Montmartre, in the 18th arrondissement

Earlier this evening, I blogged about Cartography and the Moon, 1647 and Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687). While doing the research, I came across

This Old Map… In 1647, Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius published the Selenographia sive Lunae Descriptio (Selenography or the description of

I love interesting images that I can use for the featured photo on the blog pages. I love vintage typewriters,

or, “Copy Editors are Important” Image courtesy of: https://twitter.com/brfreed/status/929392947161980929/photo/1

As an early reader, maps always kept me fascinated – especially when I had the image of where things were

One early spelling of “Halloween” was “All Hallows’ Even (Even = evening). The “all” and “s” were dropped, “hallows’ ”

https://www.xkcd.com/1904/ For those of you who are unaware of the existence of xkcd, what planet have you been living

Dateline: October 5, 2017 In this scam, individuals posing as editors and executives who work for The Atlantic magazine send

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story Andrew Stanton: The Clues to a Great Story Amy Tan: