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Questions of Faith I Am Dying To Have Answered To try to pre-empt people from misreading between the lines, let me clearly declare that the purpose of this article is in no way to challenge anyone's faith, but rather to better define my own. I am now approaching the proverbial three score... ( added 116 days 21 hours ago.)

Pithy Prose: The Wit & Wisdom of Gertrude Stein Part 17 of an occasional series I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school. I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose". These short... ( added 145 days 7 hours ago.)

How An Ugly Duckling Became a Swan Over the past 40-plus years as a journalist and marketing communication consultant, I have frequently been told that I am an exceptionally good writer by teachers, friends, colleagues, and clients. But I wasn't always a good writer; in fact, I... ( added 145 days 7 hours ago.)

Pithy Prose: The Wit & Wisdom of Simone Veil Part 16 of an occasional series I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school. I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose". These short... ( added 156 days 7 hours ago.)

Ghost-writing: A half-century tribute to John F. Kennedy If you were there at the time, you will find it hard to realize that the 50th anniversary of the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is rapidly approaching. The iconic 35th President of the United States was elected in a close-run contest against... ( added 156 days 7 hours ago.)

Public Speaking: Why Using the Right Word Is Not Always the Right Thing To Do Mark Twain famously said: "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." Of course he was absolutely right -- and partially wrong. As every professional writer... ( added 169 days 7 hours ago.)

Pithy Prose: The Wit & Wisdom of Friedrich Schiller Part 15 of an occasional series I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school. I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose". These short... ( added 169 days 7 hours ago.)

How a Polish immigrant in the USA directed a major victory over hepatitis B Because they were extracted from human blood, the first-generation hepatitis B vaccines developed in the early 1980s had significant drawbacks, including high cost, low availability, and the possibility of unsuspected contamination (HIV/AIDS).... ( added 169 days 7 hours ago.)

How To Make Dull Information Exciting Someone once said (it may have been me): "There is no dull information, only dull writers." We have all had the misfortune of reading very dull texts and sitting through very dull presentations. But were they inherently dull? Or were they made... ( added 177 days 7 hours ago.)

Common Misconceptions: Things We Know That Just Aren't So We all live with misconceptions about the world. This is quite normal. No one can be an expert in everything, so we simplify our learning into easy-to-remember snippets, which are often very close to the truth, but never quite there. Generally... ( added 177 days 7 hours ago.)

It's a Strange, Strange World As someone once said (it may have been Einstein, but it may have been someone else): "The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine." Whoever may have said it, in 1929 a certain Robert Ripley took the... ( added 186 days 20 hours ago.)

The Secrets of Writing a Truly Useful Executive Summary In virtually all walks of live -- business, education, politics, research, etc. -- documents of more than a few of pages consist of the body and an executive summary. Unfortunately, most writers treat the executive summary as an afterthought... ( added 186 days 20 hours ago.)

Pithy Prose: The Wit & Wisdom of Elbert Hubbard Part 14 of an occasional series I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school. I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose". These short... ( added 200 days 1 hour ago.)

Can God Be Immoral? To open the discussion, let's deal with the point of view that God is the source of morality; therefore, morality is whatever He defines it to be. Agreed. So let's change the premise. Can Man ever fully understand what is moral and what... ( added 200 days 1 hour ago.)

Pithy Prose: More Wit & Wisdom of Anon Part 13 of an occasional series. Follow-up to Pithy Prose: The Wit & Wisdom of Anon (Part 7) I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school. I am particularly... ( added 210 days 1 hour ago.)

How To Make Language Teaching In the U.S. Dramatically More Effective "Why are Americans so poor at learning to speak other languages?" is asking the wrong question, because the answer is obvious. They don't learn to speak other languages because they don't need to. Or more pertinently, they have little or no... ( added 210 days 1 hour ago.)

How To Write a Corporate Image Brochure People Will Truly Want To Read Writing a corporate image brochure is truly a study in futility. Two things are certain about these expensive, glossy booklets: 1) Almost all companies of any size feel compelled to produce them. 2) Virtually no one ever reads them. It... ( added 227 days 17 hours ago.)

Is Procreation Inherently Immoral? I have never had children. I have raised a child, a boy from my wife's first marriage; however, I have never created one of my own. It's not that I don't like children. It's just that I have never felt the need to project my genes down the... ( added 227 days 17 hours ago.)

The Road To a Perfect International Language Some time ago, a friend and I decided to try to establish guidelines for building a "perfect language" that ultimately could be adopted as the world's common language. We did not intend to create such a language. We just wanted to lay down... ( added 234 days 5 hours ago.)

How Americans Can Instantly Improve Their Speaking Skills Let me confess that I am an American and l used to speak very badly. Now I speak very well, at least that is what everyone tells me. The fact is, my change from being a poor speaker to being a good speaker happened virtually overnight. Here's the... ( added 277 days 2 hours ago.)

Pithy Prose: The Wit & Wisdom of Robert Frost Part 12 of an occasional series I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school. I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose". These short quotations... ( added 289 days 7 hours ago.)

Seven ways French is easier than English Native English speakers are notoriously poor at learning other languages because by comparison other languages are notoriously more difficult than English. Well, not quite. Some years ago I learned Swahili (the national language of Tanzania )... ( added 289 days 7 hours ago.)

Pithy Prose: The Wit & Wisdom of Blaise Pascal Part 12 of an occasional series I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school. I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose". These short... ( added 349 days 7 hours ago.)

A very unusual pet I am an animal lover. I love all kinds of animal: dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, ferrets, goldfish, etc. So I was lucky to have a very unusual pet when I was a kid. I grew up in Los Angeles , One day when walking home from school, I saw what... ( added 349 days 7 hours ago.)

Creativity and Common Sense in Non-Consumer Advertising "I know that half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The problem is, I don't know which half." This succinct resume of the advertiser's dilemma is often attributed to John Wanamaker, the department store pioneer. Some people prefer to... ( added 349 days 7 hours ago.)