Baba Yaga

Ein Blog für Zwei (A Blog For Two)

A Loose Canon

A Printer's Devil of a Time

My mother had been an assistant research chemist during the Second World War at the Edgewood Arsenal, Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland (where she met not only my father but also Frank Zappa's parents). Later in life she worked editing scientific journals. She let me help her with the proofreading. I was sixteen years old. But I had caught the journalism bug long before that. One of my grandfathers had been a newspaper reporter in London before emigrating to Canada.