27 February 2024 Indexing textbooks for funerary professionals comes with its own peculiar set of challenges (especially when dealing with the before photos), but it’s helpful when the authors have a sense of humour. To wit, Supercilium (eyebrows). As mentioned, cilia means “lashes” or “eyebrows,”… Read More »The Importance of a Sense of Humour
20 February 2024 I am not one to traditionally wax poetic about war (especially right now). Even less likely am I to get dewy eyed at the mere description of battleships. And yet here I sit, indexing a military history book, and finding myself needing… Read More »Indexing Reflections: Battleship Names
13 February 2024 Or makes it better, I suppose. Depends on how you look at it. All I can say is that Hamilton makes it very hard not to break out in song when indexing a book on the American Revolution. With every mention of… Read More »Pop Culture Ruins Indexing
So it turns out, doing your due diligence to find out if your spouse was dead in the seventeenth century, thus permitting you to remarry within the Church, required a trip to Veracruz. Of course, this assumes you’re already in the Caribbean. Pretty sure if… Read More »TIL: Due Diligence