Gmail introduced a handy little feature a few months ago, "smart reply"- where they suggest three possible short answers to an incoming...

Nope. Not going to do it. I had written a thousand word blog post about something that happened to me on Facebook and my critical...

It's always a risk for a writer to write about writing. Forget about the missteps you might make with other writers (and the unholy fury...

In starting to write this post I fell into, what I can only describe as a "Twenty Teens" problem. Here's the set up: I went to an art...

We were watching TV the other night (remember TV? That thing that is "broadcast" by "networks" on "channels") and an ad for Wells Fargo...

I mentioned in a previous post that I have a tendency to spin my bad habits from straw into gold as I figure out ways to describe them as...

This fall my husband and I were walking with our college-aged daughter, weaving between dorms after having listened to an amazing choral...

You know the double-edged sword- the one referenced by every lazy writer when you want to convey that two things that seem divergent are...

In honor of National Library Week, I am dedicating this post to all librarians. Thank you. I had the good fortune to be born into a...

I was fortunate enough to grow up in Chichester, NH. My mom worked as an English teacher for High School students at the State Hospital...