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[5 Dec 2011 | No Comment | ]
Personal Historian

Have you dreamed about recording a parent’s story? Or about writing your family’s history, and the path it took over the decades – now, while your grandparents can still tell you what they know? How about documenting the history of a company you built up from nothing, or recording the life of a long-beloved family home?

This is where a personal historian comes in.

Featured, Freelance, Headline, Writing »

[3 Mar 2011 | 4 Comments | ]
How Freelance Writing Has Changed, & Why Editors Get What They Pay For

If you’re not in the freelance writing business, you might not know how much it’s changed. But oh, how it has changed.

Featured, Headline, People, Personal Histories »

[14 Jan 2011 | No Comment | ]
Remembering & Being Remembered

“The recently departed whose time overlapped with people still here are the Sasha, the living dead. They are not wholly dead, for they live on in the memories of the living … when the last person knowing an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the Sasha for the Zamani, the dead.”

Featured, Headline, Online, Writing »

[7 Apr 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
A Punctuation Primer: How Do You Use The Demicolon Again?

The demicolon is a versatile (if a bit showy) punctuation tool.

Featured, Headline, Rural Life »

[21 Dec 2009 | 5 Comments | ]
Our Chickens Came First. And Then The Eggs.

In which we get chickens, and start gathering eggs.

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