Starting a 2026 to-do list for @merriam-webster.com:
1) Add "semiquincentennial" 🤨 😬

Once -- just once -- could it be above 40 degrees in the #ChapelHill #TraderJoes? I almost couldn't get my credit card out of my wallet. #raynauds

A French charity is testing an unusual fund-raising approach in the fine art world: Raffling off a Picasso painting worth more than 1 million euros to one winner. Each of the raffle tickets is on sale for 100 euros, and proceeds will go toward research into Alzheimer’s disease. trib.al/Xi9XqjE

a window on the side of a house with a white shutter on it Alt: image of person tossing their pc monitor out a second-story window

The sign of a long, long day of editing a messy, messy draft: the word "defenestration" pops into your head out of nowhere... 😑🖥️💥 #amediting

I love this so very much.

Found myself unexpectedly #Whammed Wed morning. 😑Thanks go to the #DeltaKappaEpsilon brothers of #UNC, whose 10 AM, music-enhanced, #LDOC #uglysweater coffee gathering on their front lawn did me in... 🎅☕💥 #Whamageddon

Can't wait to see this treasure at the #AcklandArtMuseum restored!

Maybe it’s the #copyeditor in me, but I can’t be the only one who nearly loses their mind every time Melinda Dillon’s time-traveling #1980s perm shows up in the 1950s of #AChristmasStory. #gah #holidaymovies

Yesterday's #stetwalk was snowy, like a #NeilWelliver painting, making this #exiledmainer and #arthistoryeditor doubly happy! 😀 Looking forward to hiking with other editors in #SLC at #ACES2025. Who's in? ❄️🌲🥾🖼️🎨📚🖥️ #amediting

We are actually lovely people with wicked senses of humor. Just don’t f with us or our friends. We will destroy you

Not quite sure how to respond... "Thank you?" (+ soul-piercing stare and crushing handshake OBV...)

Just think of how much crab risotto that would make! 🦀🍚 (with or without peas)

Winning 328.77 crabs per day is not enough? 😄🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Curious: who initiated the conversation about updating their style guide to #CMOS18, you or your client?