by Tammy Ditmore | Jun 14, 2014 | Alzheimer's, Events, personal reflections, Uncategorized
Father’s Day hasn’t been an easy day for me since my father started slipping down the rabbit hole of Alzheimer’s disease. It’s not that I don’t want to celebrate my father and all the ways he worked for me and loved me; it’s just that it’s difficult to know how. I...
by Tammy Ditmore | Jan 15, 2014 | Editing, personal reflections
This week I’m marking the third anniversary of eDitmore Editorial Services, and I’m thrilled to be here. There have been ups and downs since I posted my first piece here more than three years ago, but I feel very blessed to be able to say there have been very few...
by Tammy Ditmore | Sep 18, 2013 | personal reflections, Writing
This morning, it clicked. After 30 days of simply following best-practice advice, today, I finally get it. Last month, I made a personal commitment to spend five minutes each morning writing in a “gratitude journal.” I set the timer on my phone, pick up a notebook...
by Tammy Ditmore | Aug 27, 2013 | Editing, personal reflections
I was thrilled last week to be included in Copyediting.com’s editor Q&A series. It was a great chance for me to reflect on an editing career that is now entering its fourth decade. And I am honored and humbled to participate in a series that has included some of...
by Tammy Ditmore | Jun 10, 2013 | Editing, personal reflections
Last June, I felt privileged to be interviewed by Liz Broomfield as part of her regular Saturday Business Chat on her LibroEditing site. As she promised then, Liz checked in on me recently to see how I had done in the past year. I was grateful for the chance to look...
by Tammy Ditmore | Apr 28, 2013 | personal reflections
“She said, ‘With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.’” Eve’s words of gratitude and wonder upon the birth of her first son have been bouncing around my brain a lot the past few days. Because today, in the eyes of the law, my firstborn...
