Mother’s Day. Patriots’ Day. Veterans Day. I’ve had to use all three in recent writings and spent more than a few minutes trying to figure out where–and whether–to use the apostrophe. So I found this piece in The Wall Street Journal especially …
“She brought you forth out of the cloud of genetics and fed and clothed you and taught you to wipe yourself and say Please and Thank you and never expected you to pay her back, only that you behave appropriately …
There are two kinds of reporters in television news. The ones who make themselves the boring, cookie-cutter center of every story. And the ones who know how to step aside and use quotes, sound, images–plus a few choice words of …
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From an Op-Ed in The New York Times by author and Boston native Dennis Lehane: But I do love this city. I love its atrocious accent, its inferiority complex in terms of New York, its nut-job drivers, the insane logic of …
by e. e. cummings O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee , has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty . how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing …
St. Patrick’s Day comes but once a year, but real aficionados of Irish music will tell you that good craic can be found all year long. (Why, we’re writing this from the Landmark Tavern, est. 1868, in New York City, …
“Digital platforms are worthless without content. They’re shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they’re empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you’re reading. It is about what you’re reading.” –Maureen …
(A Small Case for Going Barefoot) Originally published in the Sun Times magazine, Jan/Feb 2013
In case you are wondering what that background is on our website (we’re talking to you, junior), The Wall Street Journal explains all.
Romeo and Juliet. Pelléas et Mélisande. A tale of star-crossed lovers and a rising star.