Most posts in my strangely well-received signs series have offered serious communications tips based on hilariously ill-conceived signs. This one doesn't. Today we'll just stick with hilarious, OK? I saw this sign on my trip to Toronto in May. And [...]
I spent last weekend "down the shore," as we say in northern New Jersey, because I wrote a donor appeal letter and related messages for Cantigas Women's Choir. I donated my services. So did several other [...]
Into every communicator's life, a little dog poop must fall. That is, sometimes we have to talk about unpleasant but inevitable things. Not major crises - that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish - but [...]
I'm not particularly bothered by the lack of commas at the ends of the lines. I am bothered, as I'm sure you are, by the missing comma after "tea." (Unless this store sells tea ice cream. Which [...]
A conversation I had last week with an author who had submitted an article to Afterschool Matters, the journal I edit, made me notice something I hadn't thought much about. I do a lot of coaching.
