A friend and colleague said to me the other morning, “You’ve been freelancing for so long. You should do a blog on working from home.” It’s true. I’ve been w...

When you're a writer, and you're working on a book, you dance. You edit to death, contemplating if the word "a" is stronger than "the" or if your first sente...

A few weeks ago, IHOP made headlines. They had us scratching our heads over the skillet flip of the "p" in their company name/acronym to declare that the inf...

I was at the post office this morning mailing a package to a friend. The postal worker had a lot of questions for me: Anything liquid, fragile, potentially h...

Someone has a serious Napoleon complex. With the swagger shape of some puny punk leaning against a brick wall in an alleyway, this bully says, "yeah, go ahea...

Sears Department Stores recently announced that they're bringing back its "Wish Book." They claim that customers missed it, so they've created a smaller yet ...

There are many things I love about being a freelance waiter. I can serve others with creativity and integrity. I have the freedom to juggle many things on on...

Dear Resistant Plant, I can understand how circumstance may have led you to feel this way - people not watering you, taking your fragrance for granted, leavi...

In the 1970s, Trident gum came out with “four out of five dentists surveyed recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.” The "four out of five" ...

This article appeared in Publishers Weekly magazine. There was a time when I couldn’t work/write without my physical, hardcover dictionary at my side. It’s n...

As a freelance writer, every day is an opportunity to bring your kid to work.

We've all seen our share of bad writing. Novels with convoluted plot lines, marketing materials rife with typos, emails and texts where autocorrects take the...

Just recently, kids and teachers celebrated the first 100 days of school—an epic moment because it officially marked the halfway point of the school year. (C...

I used to tell people I was a copywriter and then they’d look at me funny. I knew they were not hearing the “er” part. Copyright? © Like do you protect them?...