I’ve missed using a fountain pen. After decades of longing, I finally bought another one…an inexpensive one. To go along with that, I’ve also been practicing to revive my long-abandoned skills with cursive writing. In a way, it makes me feel more “writerly”. Continue reading
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The Regulator is a Windows program whose sole purpose is to test and learn and use regular expressions. Regular expressions are a way to describe how to search for text–and optionally to do a replacement or several. They can be daunting at first, but once you Continue reading
As long-time readers of my blog know, I’m all for any tool that makes my life as a writer easier. Nothing made that clearer for me than when, a few years ago, I suffered from very very bad case of … Continue reading
Unless you have perfect pitch, if you have a musical instrument (especially a stringed musical instrument), you are going to find yourself in need of a tuner. Over the years I’ve used tuning forks, pitch pipes, and various electronic tuners. … Continue reading
