Which sounds better: “Do not do that” or “Don’t do that”? Contractions make your writing less formal and more pleasing to the readers’ ears because that’s what what we hear…
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The apostle Paul wrote Timothy, asking him to bring the books and parchments when he came. Back then, all books were handwritten. About four hundred years later, Gutenberg invented the…
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A compound noun may be one word, two words, or a hyphenated word. They may be formed by joining a noun with a noun, adjective, verb, preposition, prepositional phrase, or…
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Not everybody knows how to feel blessed by stopping at a fast-food restaurant. Tim Hawkins has a delightful way to show us how to be thankful for such small things.
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Confusion comes in the way the lie and lay verbs are used in different tenses. The verb lie means to tell something that isn’t true. Jack is lying. He lies…
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Each morning Frank Ball reads a few comic strips to stir his creative thinking. In just a few frames, many of them tell an interesting story with beginning, middle, and…
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Bestselling authors may write great paragraphs, but we can learn ways to make them even better. For readers to appreciate the threat upon Chyna’s life, they need to feel like…
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Do you know who Lindsey Stirling is? If so, then you may have watched her YouTube video Crystallize, which has over a hundred million views. That’s an amazing number of…
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You’ve probably read about widgets and whatchamacallits. Gadgets, gizmos, and contraptions may do important work. Doodads, doohickeys, and thingamajigs can be perfect for the job. With all these things, what…
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In 1994, French advertising agency BETC began working to promote the Evian brand of bottled water. Their video “Rollerbabies” in 2009 is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as…
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Character is a critical key to becoming a person of quality, and it starts in the home!
