The Winter 2018 Newsletter is here! Download now! Happy New Year to all my PRPLI colleagues! I hope you and your families had a great holiday season and are staying warm during these winter blasts of cold weather! The start of a new year is a great time to reflect on the past and plan [...]
Although this column will be published in the new year, at the time of writing it’s still December. The song Auld Lang Syne keeps calling me, and I take that as a sign that it wants to appear somewhere, here, in my 500 allotted words. It’s a song about bidding farewell to the old year, [...]
By Krista Giannak Dan Rattiner got his start writing for a humor magazine in college. He describes an early learning experience as a stringer at Newark Evening News, dictating sports information via phone at the games. The lesson came in the form of a cautionary tale told by his editor, as Rattiner relays the story: [...]
By William Krol I usually write about grammar and language, but the change of the calendar year has always led me toward introspection. (And, frankly, not just for me, but almost every other person in America, judging by the sheer number of people making all kinds of resolutions.) For the past 11 (going on 12) [...]
