I spend a lot of my weeks being social – mostly for work, sometimes to maintain my friendships – and therefore spend a lot of weekends doing what I call “hiding out.” People tend not to believe me when I say that I’m a bit ...

OK, not really – I have plenty of friends who could fill those royal shoes better than I can. But I’m a writer and editor for a living (and writer and reader and amateur editor before I got paid for it) so I do have my own little peeves when it c...

Even though a lot of my writing is done on a computer keyboard, I haven’t been without a paper notebook since before I can remember. For about the past five years, Moleskine’s have become my notebook of choice. At first, it was the standard bl...