My Aunt J could use a little health~ma. Her latest pap smear came back with an off reading, I'm not sure exactly what it is, but she's going to see another gyno for a second opinion and he's going to do his own pap smear.

~ma to your aunt, askye. If it makes you feel better, EVERY damn time I get a pap it comes back weird and I have to get another one. And I'm fine every time.

much, much ~ma to your Grandma. Poor lady. No one needs oral surgery AND a bad fall in such proximity to each other (time-wise). ~ma for the askye clan.

People also write without rereading what they've written.

I work with a woman who doesn't proof read. Says she doesn't have time. The stuff we write is used as the legal basis to deport someone. It really should make sense.

a new post to report on my adventures this afternoon:

1) I not only cried at my therapist's office, I made my therapist cry too.

2) I had stuck a check in my wallet to pay my therapist, and then stopped at the bank to deposit a birthday check I'd gotten. Sure enough, when I got to therapy, there was the birthday check in my wallet, waving at me, yelling, "you fucking dumbass."

((((Nora)))). Not a dumbass. Had other things on your mind.

(((Nora))) You're definitely not dumb. That could happen to anyone.

{{{{{Nora}}}}} Not a dumbass at all.

Not dumbass at all.

As for editing. I try to read what I have written out loud. It makes such a difference in picking up errors. I try to encourage my kids to do this too. They hate it, but at least so far K-Bug has realized that it is a good way to self-proof.

Yep, reading out loud is one of the most important proofreading techniques that I teach my students. Seems to help a lot.

Suzi, my favorite high school English teacher taught us to read our papers outloud while editing. It's a great trick.

.useful be also can backwards Reading