messaging

There is something about the freshness of a new page that is so¬† . . . inspiring. And energizing. You can say anything you want. It’s pure opportunity, unedited. In a few days, we get a metaphorical new page, with the new year. But you can make…

In April of 1942, a young woman who was eight months pregnant was widowed suddenly. Her husband, just 42, died of high blood pressure (there weren’t any drugs to control it as there are now). She already had an 8-year old girl and an 11-year old boy at…

In graduate school, I learned to read fast and write big. I wrote dozens of papers for my graduate English seminars in my years at Miami University (of Ohio), but one stands out. Actually, I couldn’t tell you what the paper was about, because all that…