Thursday, September 22

Scapegoats, girded loins and other weird idioms from the Bible

Thursday, September 22, 2016 Laurel Garver
The other day, my teen daughter heard Alanis Morissette's "You Ought to Know" and got rather confused by a line in the lyrics. Image by svklimkin on morgeufile.com "Is she...

Thursday, September 15

Call for questions: how can an editor on call help you?

Thursday, September 15, 2016 Laurel Garver
The new school year has begun, which always feels to me like a time for me to start new things, or in this case, restart old things. Back in 2009, one of my critique group...

Thursday, September 8

Make marketing graphics on a shoestring

Thursday, September 08, 2016 Laurel Garver
I was fortunate to land a job early in my career that required me to learn graphic design. Between the professional seminars, how-to books, a very kind colleague who taught me...
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