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Welcome to the blog
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
Real news about reading
Real news about reading Why do we read? For Galileo, the Greek philosopher, it was a way of having superhuman powers; for Kafka, the Hungarian writer, the “axe for the frozen sea within us”; for Carl Sagan, the American astrophysicist, “proof that humans are capable...
Fake news about reading
The modern world is rife with short lists to accomplish big goals: five secrets to success, six ways to get rich, seven steps to getting in shape, eight ways to read more books this year. Fake news, I say, especially the last claim. I’ve been reading voluminously all...
English – the language that conquered the world
In 1582, Richard Mulcaster, headmaster of the Merchant Taylors’ School in London, wrote: The English tongue is of small reach, stretching no further than this island of ours, nay not there all over. In 1935, H.L. Mencken, American writer and wit, began his article for...
Looking our best on the written page
Just as we should look our best whenever and wherever we meet people, including at home with our family—I’ve always thought it curious that with the people we love most in the whole world, we don’t care how sloppy and unkempt we look—it’s imperative we look our best...