I’m obsessed with helping people. I’m not a doctor, therapist, convenience store clerk, park ranger, or general contractor, however – so I can’t help you with your foot fungus, daddy issues, lotto habit, insatiable botanical curiosity, or basement renovation. What I am is a writer, editor, and natural-born teacher with a tremendous work ethic and an innate desire to help the world be as lovely and humane a place as possible. So my blog is focused on sharing small lessons I’ve learned: small ways to be a better writer, a better worker, and a better human.
Change happens incrementally. Start small.
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Why do I want you to put the damn phone away? Because while you're looking down at your phone, you're missing out on some fairly big and important and good parts of your own life.
Read More“Be the labor great or small, do it right or not at all." It is to this aphorism — in particular, to the persistence, commitment, and insistence on quality that it has ingrained in me — that I owe a great deal of my success in life.
Read MoreIdioms — phrases that have come to have certain meanings that can't be deduced from the individual words used — are something we ALL learn over time. But they’re doubly hard for non-native English speakers trying to navigate our idiom-laden world.
Read MoreOver time, I’ve discovered a handful of websites that I use on a fairly regular basis for writing or work. In the event you haven't experienced the particular joys of some of these, I thought I'd share them with you today.
Read MoreWe all enjoy looking smarter than we are. Sadly, however, there’s no avoiding the fact that people make judgments about other people's intelligence based on the smallest bits of data. It's not fair, but it happens.
Read MoreWelcome to our FINAL blog installment focused on sorting out some of the most commonly confused words in the English language.
Read MoreWelcome to part two of our list of some of the English language's most commonly confused word pairs.
Read MoreThe English language is rife with super-fun word pairs in which one word is commonly confused with the other. Some simply sound alike. Others have overlapping/similar meanings that are hard to keep straight.
Read MoreThe need to incite action by others presents its own set of superfun challenges. And while I have no magic or utterly foolproof solutions, I do have a few strategies worth trying.
Read MoreFor various reasons – some altruistic, some control-freaky, some selfish, and almost all misguided – we take on more of the load than we need to. We don’t ask for help.
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