Since this pandemic has began, people have talked a lot about the new normal. This is a tacit acknowledgment that the world we once had, the way of life we once accepted as normal has left us. The ability to walk freely from place to place, to gather with friends and family, to go to […]

A quick look at the calendar reveals that Feb. 29 has already past. The joy of the leap year is over, right? Nope. Not so fast. Just because the day is over doesn’t mean you can’t reap the benefits of a leap year. When people think of leap years, they think of the extra day

There’s been a lot of talk in publishing about the lack of diversity in publishing. And two recent incidents come to mind that show that a lot of the diversity problems that occur happen when you don’t have a team to run things by. When you don’t have a diverse group of people who can

When my mother was diagnosed with cancer more than a decade ago, she didn’t get the diagnosis on a routine visit, or after the doctors performed tests because she wasn’t feeling quite herself. She got the diagnosis because she was deathly ill. Her undiagnosed cancer had caused a host of other problems that could have

If I ever tell someone on the phone that one of my favorite television shows as a kid was Mr. Ed, they think I’m older than I am. Probably because Mr. Ed first aired back in 1961. It was actually a favorite of my father’s when he was a kid (great minds, right?) Only, my