Monthly Archives: July 2013

“When I heard that oxygen and magnesium hooked up I was like OMg.”  Get it?  OMG is short for “oh my God,” but also O is the symbol for oxygen and Mg is the symbol for magnesium.  This is one … Continue reading →

I can remember the days of the manual typewriter when the only font available was a typeface called Courier.  It was a monospaced font – meaning that the space allotted for every character was the same.  A lower case “i” … Continue reading →

In the early 1950s the great Edward R. Murrow encouraged people, both famous and ordinary, to write short essays on their core values, and then to read them on a five minute long CBS radio program called This I Believe. … Continue reading →

When we think of authors and their books, we generally think of them writing alone, handing a manuscript to a publisher who either accepts or rejects it.  In fact, the book publishing business is seldom that simple.  Harper Lee, for … Continue reading →

Joseph Heller planned to title his novel Catch-18 until he found out that Leon Uris was about to publish Mila 18.  Then the search was on to find a number other than 18.  He and his publisher finally agreed on … Continue reading →

There is a new book out that you have probably never heard of, and even more likely have never read even though it is on the Amazon top 100 list.  (It was number 7 when I wrote this post a … Continue reading →