A few years ago while working as a book editor at my former job, I had a very humbling experience in learning about my shortcomings. Behind the scenes in the book world, it typically takes about nine months for a book to go from being a pile of paper to becoming an actual product that…
Author: Leah Lakins
Ms. Howard and the Black History Project That Changed Everything
I’ve held onto to Ms. Howard’s history project for more than 20 years because it reminds me to never forget who I am as African American and to celebrate the gift of my heritage ever day.
Heaping Bowls of Inspiration
When I was little, my absolute favorite meal in the world was a big bowl of cornflakes cereal brimming with whole milk. You could not have told me that those glorious bowls of overly processed, high fructose-corn syrup laden flakes were not the food of the gods. If I was cranky, fidgety, or otherwise just…
What Are You Doing With Your En-Dash?
As an editor nothing makes me happier than properly used punctuation. Without an appropriate period, comma, semicolon, and my favorite, the exclamation mark, the words, numbers, and symbols of our expressions would just be a jumble of marks with no significance. So which one is most important? The period that helps to end a sentence?…
The Ink Well 