Today, one of my photos of Spiral Island in Isla Mujeres, Mexico appeared in a feature on Popular Mechanics.com.
The World’s Strangest Man-Made Islands
I’m not exactly a professional photographer, but I enjoy travel photography, especially to complement my travel writing. You can find an article I wrote about Spiral Island here.
I do have a few [...]
I recently went into a Ricky’s restaurant for breakfast. This was the menu description for their Double Egger plate:
Two eggs with shredded hash browns and toast or pancakes
I ordered the Double Egger with pancakes. When it arrived at my table, the plate had just eggs and pancakes, so I asked about my hash browns. The [...]
Here’s the cover article I wrote for the August 2010 issue of Make It Business Magazine.
Inspecting the Franchise Option
When I’m not obsessing about grammar and punctuation, I’m passionate about raising money to fight breast cancer. The statistics on this disease are staggering — 1 in 9 women is expected to develop breast cancer in her lifetime. When I look around at my mother, my sisters, my friends, I can only think one thing. [...]
It’s not my fault. Someone I follow on twitter posted a link to the new, non-airbrushed photos of Britney Spears on the website of UK tabloid the Daily Mail. I had to look.
And while the photos/airbrushing – and what they reveal about an industry that makes all teenage girls even more full of self-loathing than [...]
Ever wondered which is correct, “comprises” or “comprised of”? Here’s a great blog post from Everything Language and Grammar that explains why “comprised of” is wrong better than any I’ve seen:
Comprised of Errors
Enjoy!
I received an e-mail today with this subject line:
Europe Sale – Up To 25% Off Christina
You may notice that what should be a dash (–) is a hyphen (-) here, but the real problem is the lack of a comma. What this subject line is trying to tell me is that I can get 25% [...]
Focusing too closely on getting the big facts right can sometimes derail you — it’s the little details that tend to get writers in trouble. Check out this great correction from the New York Times:
An earlier version of this post misquoted Mr. Remnick on his comparison between the book and a New Yorker article he [...]
by Reija J Roberts
“When you’re self-employed, you are always selling yourself. You should be able to say what you do in fifteen seconds.” Preparing her “elevator pitch” is only one key to success for freelance writer and editor Christina Newberry. Her website, which boasts glowing testimonials and tangible work samples, ranks high in a Google [...]
As a proud sponsor of the Small Business BC Entrepreneur Showcase, I’m happy to announce that just by attending the event you could win a mini-press kit, including a business profile and one press release, plus a one hour consultation with me. Loads of other great prizes are up for grabs, and it’s sure to [...]
