100 Great Books

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...

The Value of Nothing

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...

Deliriously Delightful History

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...

Words Don’t Fail People, People Fail People

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...

Drilling Down to Low-Hanging Fruit

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:...

Intimidating Words

The hypothalamus transforms emotions into physical responses, which are communicated throughout the body in the form of neuropeptides… Did you get all that? I have to admit, my eyes glazed over before I was halfway through the sentence. I’m doing some research for a...
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