Pay up to experience ‘exciting changes’
“Exciting changes at Paper.li!” said the email subject line. (Paper.li helps you “create a web presence” with an online newspaper that contains your “curated” content.) The email continued, “We’re thrilled to have you as part of our community, and want you to be the...
70 good, better, best alternatives to good
“Amazing” was the go-to word on this year’s Academy Awards red carpet. In fact, if you had a drink every time someone’s gown or Oscar experience or career was said to be amazing, you’d have been drunk before the ceremony even started. At one time, something...
Life is fragile, so don’t waste it
“Life is really, really, ridiculously, annoyingly, infuriatingly, terrifyingly fragile.” So says Katie Hawkins-Gaar, a writer and journalism consultant…and young widow. Her husband Jamie died in 2017, collapsing less than a mile from the finish line of a half marathon...
‘They’ gives more options to count people in
A peek under the blog “hood” shows that a post about looking for a gender-neutral option for man-hours is one of the most-read on my blog. I’m clearly not the only one who has looked this up! (Long story short, try work-hours or staff-hours.) Women...
‘The cooling power of a cat yawning’ + more metaphor magic (Wordnerdery)
In a world where skimming and snacking is our default way of operating, vivid images can be an express trip to understanding. Metaphors are magic when you want to explain something complicated, give an idea of size, make a point memorably – or just make someone smile....
A leap of faith and I’m celebrating 29 years
This seems unreal even to me, but I’m celebrating 29 years in business this month. Wow! Starting my business was a leap of faith. Or, as I put it in a post in 2017, it wasn’t really as fast as a leap. It was more like stretching and warming up and slowly building up...
Switch your thinking to keep New Year’s resolutions on track
Happy New Year! Oops, the year has hardly begun and we’re heading for the New Year’s resolution danger zone. Already, “chances are pretty good that all those lofty resolutions you made before the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31 have fallen by the...
Top 10 on the blog in 2019
The flurry of end-of-year lists is well underway, and I’m jumping in. As 2019 winds down, here’s my last post this year: The top 10 most-viewed posts on the blog. 1. The post that got the most traffic this year by far was on a topic I periodically revisit: Is blogging...