What Not To Say This Year
There’s been a lot written lately about words women use that undermine their power and impact. Business Insider makes an impassioned plea for the elimination of…
There’s been a lot written lately about words women use that undermine their power and impact. Business Insider makes an impassioned plea for the elimination of…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know Moby and his music. But that’s not what this post is about. What you may…
Twenty-five years ago, a young man fascinated with submarine warfare, espionage and a career in the military was told he was too nearsighted to ever…
For most creative types, the issue isn’t coming up with the idea; it’s pulling the trigger and executing. You’ve heard the quote, “to write is…
Thanks to writers like Ernest Hemingway, alcohol has become a legendary agent for getting brilliant words flow out of one’s pen. But as it turns…
One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone sends out a mass emails but doesn’t BCC (blind carbon copy) the email addresses. With one…
For a long time, the word manifesto got a bad wrap. Only communists and serial killers seemed to use them. Thankfully, these days many of…
The “say it isn’t so” moment. We’ve all been there. It’s that moment when you want so badly for something not to have happened that…
There was a time, not so long ago, when we would memorialize our deepest secrets in diaries. These diaries were hidden from view, tucked away…
When word sleuths go digging for the origin of our favorite puns, idioms and catchphrases, literature is usually a good starting point. (Joseph Heller coined…