That’s the challenge that has been extended to bloggers. As if NaNoWriMo weren’t intense enough (and so much so that I could not,…

Back in March 2005, I founded my site on Blogger. My goal was simple: I just wanted to write. And I hoped someone…

‘Tis the season to decorate our homes, shop for gifts, and attend oodles of school programs and events, office parties, and church and…

A few weeks ago, I wrote about comment moderation. Since then I have noted that the dialogue among bloggers about comments has intensified,…

I am not participating in NaNoWriMo this year. The time commitment is simply too much at this point. Additionally, as I have mentioned…

I am delighted by the vigorous debate that my articles have inspired over the past couple of weeks. From such enthusiastic conversation, we…

Everyone who knows me or reads my personal blog knows that I am a fanatic for “The Sopranos.” (And yes, I’m still mourning…

There’s an ongoing discussion among bloggers concerning comments. Every so often, the dialogue intensifies before going to the back burner again, only to…

Spelling errors are one of my all-time peeves. Why? Because in a matter of seconds, you can refer to a dictionary to see…

To comma or not to comma. That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler and appropriate to place a comma after “and” and “or”…

When reviewing a document someone else has written or receiving feedback from others on my own writing, there is one word that I, like most other serious writers, strive never to utter or hear: Comma.

Everyone has an opinion and his/her own writing style vis a vis the use of commas, the most abused and overused item of punctuation in the English language. Want to start a heated debate among writers? Just ask one simple question, duck and run, because there is likely to be vociferous disagreement about the answer to this query:

“Should there be a comma after that word?”

My first reaction was, “Are you kidding me?” Fifty thousand words? In only 30 days? This is not the article I intended to…

Last week, I shared my frustration with my writing, especially in the context of my own blog. This past week, I’ve continued to…

    Time to revisit an issue that I wrote about on February 12, 2007.  At that time, I concluded: When all is…

“Sensory overload.” We’ve all heard that phrase. It has become a cliched part of our vernacular. For instance, when deadlines and activities at work start to make us feel frazzled, we tell our colleagues, half-jokingly, “I can’t hang in. I’m on sensory overload here.”

The phenomenon is being studied by the experts and every day, it seems, there is another news story about the impact that technology and all of the communicative devices we use every day are having upon us. We are all connected to each other perpetually through our cell phones, blackberries, computers, etc. But are we really connecting with other human beings in a meaningful fashion or just superficially? That’s a question for the sociologists to answer in years to come.

For me, the question has become, am I really connected with my internal self? Some days the honest answer is “no.”

Since I broached the topic of pet peeves last week . . . A couple of days ago, I had a fairly appalling…

We all make mistakes. But if you want me to answer you, don’t ever call me “Jane.” And if you address or refer…

I really enjoyed reading your responses to my post last week, “What would you do?” I promised that I would tell you this…

School is out for the summer and my youngest son’s report card is posted on the front of the refrigerator. I can at…

Do you remember Night Shift, a film starring Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton? There were a couple of scenes in which Keaton’s character…

I attended a writing course recently and was introduced to a concept that is not new, but was certainly new to me: Mind-mapping.…