As I finish the final edits of my novel, I’m taken back to the days when I was a proofreader for my high school newspaper. This was in the days before the invention of spellcheck. Yes, children, there was a time, slightly post-cuneiform, when people had to do this with pencils.*

*If most of you are old enough to remember this, I will try to write in 72 pt Helvetica next time.