Working as a copy editor
To get a job as a copy editor, you must have a rock-solid sense of grammar, spelling and punctuation and a keen eye for errors […]
Month: August 2005
Travel Review: The Vatican
In my whirlwind visit to Rome, my friend Carol and I took a bus tour that went to the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel in […]
Drunkards, deadbeats and bummers
“Drunkards, deadbeats and bummers” This was how Harvard president Charles W. Eliot described reporters as he rejected Joseph Pulitzer’s offer to endow a journalism school […]
Travel Review: Santa Maria Maggiore
The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore (St. Mary Major) was the first church dedicated to The Virgin Mary and is one of Rome’s four great […]
Travel review: Sorrento
Sorrento is a small seaside city on the southwestern coast of Italy in the province of Campania. It has a population of about 15,000 people […]
Travel review: Hotel Il Nido
The Il Nido (Italian for “The Nest”) is a pretty little family-run hotel about 5 kilometers outside Sorrento, Italy. It was established in 1964. The […]
Travel review: The Isle of Capri
This Italian island’s name is pronounced CAP-ree, rather than ca-PREE. Capri was not named for goats (as one might guess from the name, since “capreae” […]
Generic books
Many of us remember the ultra-plainly-labeled, über-cheap generic foods sold in bulk at grocery stores a few decades back. Stuff like bulk beer, which came […]
Travel review: Pompeii
If you’re visiting southwestern Italy and have the chance to visit the ruins at Pompeii, I strongly suggest you do so. The place is amazing, […]
Travel review: Herculaneum
The Italian ruins at Herculaneum are about 6 miles from the shore of the Bay of Naples. Visiting them was quite an interesting experience. If […]
How to comfort someone whose mother or father has died
Watching my mother die was a wrenching experience I still don’t have the words to describe. I have experienced no deeper grief than the day […]
Book Review: Devil’s Tower by Mark Sumner
A Review of Mark Sumner’s novel Devil’s Tower (Del Rey, 1996) Devil’s Tower is a sprawling, entertaining novel that blurs the boundaries between fantasy, western […]