Collecting My Thoughts

"Paul Johnson, prolific journalist and best-selling popular historian, has died at 94 . The range of his writing’s subject matter was a...

My office was cleaned out to the bare walls and moved to the laundry room to make way for our son’s hospital bed and supplies. At first the ...

That’s the name of a blog  by Don whom I vaguely remember meeting blogging or in a Usenet writers’ group. I’ll note it here so I don’t lose ...

A guy named Vince writes an advice and review column for romance writers and readers. This one is pretty good-- 106 ways to show (not tell)...

Carlos Alcala who writes for McClatchy had an article in today's Dispatch about the reluctance to use the D (death, dying) word. My good...

What's another term for free lance writer? Unemployed. Whether they call themselves writers, journalists or free lancers, they are reall...

Dear Samuel Swann I'm a big fan of free-circ serials and newspapers, and today I saw CityNewsUSA (serving Cleveland, Akron and Columbus...

3815 Sometimes I have trouble with English, too Perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised if newspapers are shrinking or folding and people...

The terrible, sad marriage of Annie and Frank You never know the tales you'll find when browsing a digitized, obscure record in the N...