As a journalist in training, the AP Stylebook has become bedside reading for me. While perusing its pages the other day and I came across this entry for quotations in the news: “Never alter quotations, even to correct minor grammatical errors or word usage. Casual minor tongue slips may be removed by using ellipses, but…
Now I get it!
I have been trying for years to get my friends and family to eat more sustainable seafood, use less disposable bags, and generally try to think about what they use and throw away. I’ve had limited success. But, once I started writing about some of these issues for a newspaper, I got comments along the…
confessions of a neophyte twit
On Saturday, I did something I swore I would never do. I opened a Twitter account. Until then, I’d managed to avoid Twitter. It annoyed me. Its over-exposed ubiquity made me want to don a Twitter-stealth-shield that would deflect any and all references to the site and ensure a blissfully Twitter-free day. I wondered why…