Blog
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
Through the looking glass
One could weep at the topsy-turvy state of our modern world. Let me explain.My husband has been under the care of the medical system in our fair province for the past year, undergoing an operation last fall and another one this week. Remember, under our wonderful...
Our black & white parties
I miss the roses—profusions of them in silver bowls—and the warm light of candles and incandescent bulbs in pretty lamps, the white dishes and sparkling glasses, the colourful platters and bowls for serving the food, all setting the stage for another black & white...
The Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante
I am a reader and have been from the beginning of my literate life at 4 years old. Which means I have read an awful lot of books, literature of the English-speaking world with great literature—many by dead, white males—featuring prominently. Postmodernism leaves me...
Dressing up
I’ve always loved clothes.In fact, one of my dearest memories is an afternoon at the farm in the 1950s with my sister trying on clothes and taking pictures of our wonderful outfits—our first selfies, so to speak. The amazing part is that we each only had about three...