With pride, Christine clipped coupons from the newspaper before she went shopping. She checked for the best prices online. She would never be caught paying too much for anything. When…
Read More
Back when the English language had a limited vocabulary, Shakespeare is thought to have created thousands of words. After Robert Heinlein created grok as a Martian word in his novel…
Read More
On April 20, 1999, two teenage boys walked into Columbine High School and randomly shot their classmates. Like most Americans, my husband and I were glued to our television set,…
Read More
Tom already had two pressing deadlines. The odds weren’t good for finishing them before he was sent a book manuscript to edit. He felt like a sailboat moving into a…
Read More
Do you consider yourself a fast or slow thinker? Actually, unless we’ve suffered a brain injury, everybody’s mental processing rate is about the same. Conscious reasoning takes place at forty…
Read More
Suzanne had to decide what perspective she would use in telling her story. She could be the reporter, exercising a God-like position by telling what happened. She began to write:…
Read More