If you want to breathe out, you need to breathe in. If you want to write, you need to read. I’m always on the lookout for good recommendations on what book to pick up next. This one is pretty fascinating: a list of the “100 best reads” from the last...
Yesterday was my birthday: I celebrated by not writing anything. For a writer, spending time not writing is precious, in the same way that cleaning out your closets helps grow your wardrobe and having earthworms in your garden helps the soil bring forth plants. It’s...
I’ve never been a serious history buff. But as my home page points out, “I have a passion for great writing.” Lately I’ve been exploring historical writers, looking for tastes of “the exquisite beauty of a powerful idea expressed in expertly-chosen words.” As readers...
I think words too often get a bum rap. People often say of some especially intense experience, “Words cannot describe how I felt.” Sure they can. It’s a question of who’s using them. The fourth gospel-writer claims that words were here before we were: “In the...
Last year, I posted a note, “Instructions in Unctuous Condescension,” about a hilarious memo written by my friend Scott Ohlgren, creator of the innovative beverage Brain Toniq. Scott recently penned an important memo to his team, which I felt impelled to share. MEMO:...
