SEND MONEY: from TYPING to TYPOGRAPHY by Leigh Lundin One of my favorite people is Micheline, who lives just north of Paris. In eMails, we once talked about my “sending money”, actually a reference to monetary symbols such as the euro (pronounced UR-oh without an Americanized Y sound). Micheline uses a Windows machine which requires […]

CHICKLIT 451° by Leigh Lundin In a recent commentary, Patricia Smiley wrote that she found the term ChickLit demeaning, which set me to thinking about it with resulting mixed reactions. (A hard-boiled male detective sub-genre came to mind, probably unprintable in these refined pages.) Assuming we define ChickLit as any light entertaining form of stories […]

CRITICISMS by Leigh Lundin As a new writer speaking to new writers, this particular column is of critical importance. In Deborah Elliott-Upton’s first column, she wrote about deducing how well students would do in class by where they sat. While that part of the article was intriguing, at the heart of the article was how […]

FIRSTS by Leigh Lundin This is a column of firsts. It is a first column by a first-time writer, writing about first experiences. For those of you as new as I am, I’ll tell you first impressions of my first ever MWA banquet and Edgar awards. First, I’ll tell you a little about myself. Once […]