For 30 years, when I was a newspaper editor long ago, I mentored young reporters. Sometimes it was as simple as asking the right question. I recall one reporter rushing into the […]
Musings on life 10/25/2024
On this beautiful October day in Mesa, Arizona, I’ve decided that there are primary focuses in my life. Writing my short stories, ghostwriting two books, editing other books and making certain my […]
Services we offer in 2019
Basic Rate: $50 per hour (with two to three editors) Nonrefundable fee: $500 to reserve our services. Hours worked are applied against this fee. The basic rate includes, but is not limited […]
Marriage is a dance that takes two; sometimes the gyrations go the other way
Walk into the scene: Thanksgiving buffet at a resort hotel. Two guys sitting next to me. The Danish guy was pithily opining to his younger guy friend. I was about to head […]
My grandmother drove a 1948 Lincoln until Daddy took it away
Grandmother Mabel drove a 1948 Lincoln until the crisis came. She drove through the new red lights in downtown by blowing her horn. “That should be enough for them to get out […]
Did he really say that? Yeah, he really did
Once upon a time not so long ago, unfortunately, I heard an elected official say, “We need to move out everybody over 55 to make room for the young people.” Yes, he […]
Seeking a guy with a pet rat on a leash?
When you’re in a hurry at an I-55 rest stop in Mississippi, nothing gets in your way. But I closed my car door a little more slowly as I watched a […]
Our author wrenched my heart
I’m editing one of our authors whose book is near completion, and he has reached the turning point. Betrayed by a friend, he resigns his ministerial post — even though he’s […]
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