I want to share a story about an email I received recently from a young freelancer who writes for the same local newspaper as I do. In that email, he frantically apologized for misidentifying a mascot in his high school basketball game story from the previous night – he apparently referred to them as the Panthers instead of the Raiders. No one, not even the copy desk, caught the flub before going to print. So it's not like he was the only one to blame. But he was going on and

I got an email recently from a reader who was kind enough to point out an error I made in an old blog. The post, which I wrote in March, focused on why you don't use apostrophes to pluralize last names. Somehow, I used one incorrectly in a closing example. Ugh! Major fail on my part!!!! I think the reader even joked around and said something like, "I was about to give you an 'atta boy' until ..." It was a fun exchange that I was completely open to and one of two conversations