Nowadays I’m an editor, but my formal education is in engineering. You could call it “leftover occupational hazard” when a former engineer thinks about editing and ends up making a graph, a plot, a sentence curve. curve – noun \ˈkərv\ a curved line on a graph that shows how something changes or is affected by […] Read more
voice – noun \ˈvȯis\ : the sounds that you make with your mouth and throat when you are speaking, singing, etc. : the ability to speak : the ability to sing __________ “I lost my voice,” I croaked to a small gathering of writers who had come to a workshop Ann Kroeker and I were leading […] Read more
Fresh out of college and in my first job as a reporter, I took my role and my writing as a journalist very seriously. I spent hours doing an expose’ of the local county jail (the sheriff’s cooperation, I discovered later, was an attempt to get more money for his building project); I took copious […] Read more
