UNABRIDGED TO NOWHERE by Robert Lopresti A long time ago my mother-in-law decided to buy me a big present for a special occasion and asked what I would like. I suggested a certain dictionary. Later she called me from a bookstore. She had told the salesman that her son, a writer, wanted a Webster’s Third […]

ON GIVING THANKS FOR FAMILY & NOT BEING ABLE TO SPELL by Melodie Johnson Howe It is difficult being a writer, a wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. I am always working on two levels: my accepted one as wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother and that other pesky side of me, the writer. Thanksgiving […]

THESAURUS REX by James Lincoln Warren If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time looking for le mot juste—I only know one writer (whose lucid prose I greatly admire) who claims to never use a thesaurus. I honestly don’t know how many books I have on words and usage, but there are quite […]