Take a break–preventing RSI/MSD.

Perhaps it’s because I’ve had to wear them that I’m aware of wrist splints–but I couldn’t help noticing at the ASI convention that there seemed to be a number of them in evidence, which was not surprising given that we do spend a lot of time at the computer. Since I’m a veteran of bilateral hand…

Index Appreciation Day 2011

For several of us the first Index Appreciation day was  celebrated by meeting for lunch near Index, Virginia, actually in King George.  Gathering for this occasion were Connie Binder, Becky Horynak, Kay Pederson, Kara Pekar, and me.  We visited and had lunch. After lunch we made a “pilgrimage” to the Index, Virginia, sign. (Fortunately one…

The CAT did it?

As I go about setting up for freelance work as an indexer, all sorts of things keep popping up that I realize I haven’t considered yet in terms of consequences to my work. This whole chain of thought  started when I saw a post on CINDEX users list about the incident of the cat on…

About me…

I am a freelance indexer providing back-of-book indexing of general trade books, textbooks, and scholarly works. My areas of education include medicine (with emphasis in neurology, epileptology,  neuroanatomy and neurosciences as well as general medicine and health sciences), and experimental/physiological psychology. Special interests and hobbies provide knowledge of wine, food, cooking/culinary arts, gardening, organic farming,…