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One of the women I work with recently sent out a few articles, and now I’m completely hooked on Ragan.com. Here are some neat tips you might find useful for your own writing: – 5 ways to write an e-newsletter people will read – Keep yourself covered with these 8 proofreading tips – Who vs. …
I’ve never kept track of the books that I read, but I thought it might be fun to start keeping a list of all of them. And it just might inspire me to start reading more books, too! Every month I’ll publish a blog post with a list of the books that I read that …
I’ve cross-country skied since around the time that I could walk. Every winter, my parents would pack my sister and I up and take us nearly every weekend to go skiing. It was fantastic. It’s been several years since I was last out on the trails, so it was with much excitement (and a little …
After reading Postman, I figured I should probably read Huxley. And what an excellent author he is! From Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (page 194): You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed the high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead. In Brave …
From Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman: People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people – a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the …
Political speeches weren’t always about vocal audience reaction and applause. Now, however, one of the main ways that we show our appreciation and approval is with applause. Speeches are written with deliberate pauses to give the audience the opportunity to applaud partway along. President Obama can hardly finish a sentence without the crowd breaking into …