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Let’s talk. And as the walrus says, about everything and anything as our fancy takes us—style for every day, the art and satisfaction of running a comfortable and welcoming home, the joy and work of entertaining at home, politics from a centre-right perspective…
…and even about what I do for a living: writing & rewriting, editing & proofreading technical documents, website text, promotional materials, novels and memoirs. In short, when getting the words right matters, Editor’s Ink is there to help.
“ ‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax―
Of cabbages—and kings―
And why the sea is boiling hot―
And whether pigs have wings.’ ”
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
The worst of times, the best of times
The worst of times I thought our generation had somehow allowed the rot of left-wing progressive thought to contaminate the Western world of liberal democracy. But the infection started long before that, originating from Marx and Engels in the mid-1800s and spreading...
Happy Mother’s Day!
Another gem from the ‘literary’ piles in the EIL office, dedicated to all the women in my life—those just beginning life’s journey, those in the prime of their lives, and those in our golden oldies full of wisdom and memories—and all the wonderful men in my life:...
Discovering brainy meals in an age of mental canapés
Everyone agrees that the way to literacy is to read, read, then read some more. But in this era of mental canapés, a brainy meal in current affairs is hard to find. With newspapers getting thinner and thinner before they succumb to the anorexia of no readers, and...
Words, words, words
My last four blogs have been all about words in a serious vein—writing well, praising English, cultivating reading—but now let’s turn to words in a lighter vein. Like all writers, I collect articles, cartoons, quotations that pique my interest, squirreling them away...