Why was I wearing a sunhat in the fog?

Susannah Noel grew up in central Vermont, between Montpelier and Woodbury. She lived on an old farm with her mom and dad, three older siblings, two cats, two dogs, a horse, some chickens, a lizard, and a mynah bird. Although she loved exploring the woods behind her house and playing in the countryside, when she moved to Burlington to go to UVM, she got a taste of the urban lifestyle–and she loved it. After college she moved to Boston, and she spent ten happy years exploring Harvard Square and the other squares in Cambridge and Somerville. But when she and her husband were expecting their first child, they decided to move back home to be near her family. Now she has two children–two crazy boys–and she feels settled in Vermont again.

Some days, a red pencil is all I am.

Susannah has been a copyeditor and proofreader of books and journals for over 15 years. She is a certified word, grammar, and punctuation junkie. (Yes, you can get certified in this.) It is one of her goals at CPA Site Solutions to fix any errors she finds without annoying her coworkers.

Favorite movies: Jacob’s Ladder, The Reader, Monsters Inc., Lord of the Rings (just saw the first one; babies kept me away from the movies for a few years), Same Time Next Year, Up, Parenthood

Favorite music: Ben Folds Five, Ani Difranco, KT Tunstall, Mel Torme, Anita O’Day, the Be Good Tanyas, Of Montreal, Macy Gray, Scott Hamilton, Allison Krauss

Favorite TV shows: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Mad Men, Little House on the Prairie, Bored to Death, Pulling, Entourage, Seinfeld, Northern Exposure, 30 Rock

Apparently, when a person is on top of a mountain, that person should yell.

Is there . . . someone . . . behind me? This is the sort of thing you're obligated to put in your house come Halloween when you have two boys.

Sure, I prompted them to hold their dirty feet in the air -- but notice the fresh fruit I served them with dinner!