Like most writers of fiction, I spend most of my waking hours in a job where I’m doing something else. In my case, I write user assistance materials for software (yeah, that’s right; I write “Help.”) And since you ask, no; I don’t have a technology background. This is a … Continue reading
In my role as technical writer, I was drafting some instructions for a new application when it struck me that the Save icon on so many applications is still a line drawing of a floppy disk. And that there are a lot of people using computers today (like my nieces … Continue reading
So I was standing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, crying over a red clay pot. It was a lovely pot, though not as lovely as the one without the dent. Both were pale red Nile clay in that beautiful vase shape, wide round shoulders tapering symmetrically to a flat bottom. In … Continue reading