Errata and Embarrassed

At least once a week I check this blog just in case someone leaves a comment.  This week I glanced at the first sentence and was horrified to read the wrong word “below” instead of “belong”.  As we all know from experience, spell check doesn’t catch this type of anomaly.  It’s sad really.  With today’s programming geniuses you would think someone could develop a program that would also check context and suggest corrections to these types of mistakes.

Making that type of mistake embarrassing, my only solace is that nearly every writer has had that happen.  With a mistake in the lead sentence I thought I should re-read the entire post.  Guess what?  Another error, I wrote “authors experience” instead of “authors’ experience” and this error was in the second sentence!  This was a classic proofreading error.

To say the least, I am humbled by my own fallibility.  I apologize to readers for not being more careful.  I’ll strive to do better in the future.