Here’s my take on Marcia Rosen’s new mystery novel.

Since November, I’ve been all over Google Maps copy-editing Food Security Outlooks, Weather Hazards Reports and the like for FEWS NET, the branch of USAID that delivers data on new and emerging food crises to […]

Fellow wordsmiths, I hope your late spring is going well.

On a rainy day in upstate New York, my father once took me to DUCK SOUP, my first Marx Brothers movie. Soon I would read T.S. Eliot’s best-known poems […]

Every time I think of my keyboard (the Logitech ERGO 860),I ask myself “Have I written today?” Ten minutes’ thinking at the keyboard, first thing in the morning, helps me find my voice.

Today, however, I am […]

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My work builds on teaching, tutoring, and consulting experience across the humanities, sciences, and technical disciplines.

This holiday season, I’m thinking […]