Innovation
From the Archives: Word with a Past–Parchment
One of these days I’m going to come out the other side of this book, honest. Luckily I have 10+ years of blog posts to draw on in the meantime. I had forgotten all about this one from 2013. ***** For hundreds of years papyrus was the principal material on which books (or at least…
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In which I talk about the revision process and Welchs’ Grape Juice
As I work on these revisions,* I am dipping back into Sigrid Schultz’s documents, including the daily logs that she kept on and off over the years, looking for details that I remember but can’t quite put my hands on.*** In the process, things catch my attention that didn’t strike me the first, or fourth,…
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From the Archives: Clara Barton, Act III–the American Red Cross
For the next little while, I’m juggling revisions with prepping for a talk about Civil War nurses. (I love giving talks, but I was overly optimistic when I agreed to do this one last September.) It makes for an interesting mix of tough broads competing for my attention. Working on the theory that if I’m…
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