More excuses as to why I haven’t been blogging much – I promise they’re good ones!

I disappeared again. Sorry about that.

There’s been illness (mine and kiddos – thank G-d, nothing life threatening) and there’s been writing. There’s also been a lot of editing, including a new copyediting gig.

The copyediting is pushing me just a bit out of my comfort zone. While I’m used to editing and proofreading, it’s usually only a few very short pieces a day or a single long piece, and it’s not every day. This job I’m now doing includes at least 10 pieces per issue for a newspaper, and...