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• January 6, 2018

  Buttontapper Challenge: Day 6

  Start Doing – What are some things you want to start doing this year? This had better be a short list since I already have more on my plate than I can handle. Thankfully, tomorrow’s topic is Stop Doing, which should be longer. Taking up this challenge is an example of one thing I want […]
• July 13, 2016

  Ten Most Common Errors Made by Writers: #6

  Originally posted on Polishing Your Prose:
  From the Editor’s Eye The 10 Most Common Errors Made by Writers (And How to Fix Them) The fifth of a ten-part series. #6. A Tense Moment: Word Context, Past & Present You and I are sitting at a bar, having a beer, and I tell you about an…
• July 13, 2016

  Book Review: Police

  Police, the tenth and final book in Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole detective series, tells of the Oslo Crime Squad’s search for a serial killer who is targeting them, specifically police or former police who were involved in the investigation of cases that were closed without being solved. The public are outraged at the lack of progress in […]
• July 4, 2016

  Eight-Week Challenge: Week Five Results

  How Am I Doing? Hooray! I have much progress to report on this week. As a reminder, here are my goals for the eight-week challenge: eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories, spend one day a week reading the backlog of magazines sitting on the end table (changed to read an average of five magazines […]
• May 23, 2016

  Book Review: Call the Midwife

  Jennifer Worth’s first volume of her trilogy covers her transition from nurse at a regimented and hierarchical hospital to midwife in a convent where lay nurses work side-by-side with their cloistered, religious sisters in the docklands of the East End of London in the 1950s. She arrives at Nonnatus House convinced there is no God […]