Working-from-Home Door Tags

For everyone teaching, learning, working, and writing from home! A set of printable door tags that let everyone else know that you, for one, are trying to focus. To reinforce, print on card stock or mount on a manila folder. Stay safe, be well, take...

Getting Smart with Quotes

You know how sometimes you see quotation marks and apostrophes that turn toward the text they’re associated with—and sometimes they’re just straight up and down, almost like hatch marks? The former kind go by many names: directional quotation marks, smart...

Making Writing Manageable, If Not Enjoyable

The good folks at the Pedant, Claremont’s student newsletter, recently interviewed me about how make writing more pleasurable and routine (yes, both). The issue is out, and I see that they’ve quoted me using un accent circonflexe—I feel so fancy! Other...