Other than the occasional correspondence with readers who didn’t like the sentences I ended with prepositions, I never though much about prepositions until my daughter came home with a list of fifty she needed to memorize. I thought the assignment …[Continue]

My 1979 edition of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style reigns over my workspace from its place of honor on my bookshelf. It’s a slim volume because, like all good writing, the needless words have been omitted. The original, …[Continue]

This week my sister-in-law shared a childhood memory. At the end of every summer, she’d return from sleep-away camp to find her letters home neatly stacked on her desk, corrected with her father’s red pen. Year after year, she looked …[Continue]