As with most fields, my primary field, international development, uses many standards and jargon that do not follow traditional rules of grammar, language, and spelling (and I'm a traditionalist). Some are harmless, such as capitalizing the "g" in "Government" when referring to a specific country (e.g., Government of South Sudan, Government of Nigeria); others are less [...]
Category: Miscellaneous
2014 Year In Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for my website and blog . Here's an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 840 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 14 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]
Welcome to my new website!
Hello friends, colleagues, and clients! Welcome to my new website! I look forward to sharing with you my writing and editing tips and tricks, my publications and other career successes, and some fun memes and anecdotes about communication. Feel free to like pages, make comments, and contact me as you like.