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In ancient times, reading must have been difficult without spaces and punctuation between words. Now we have periods, commas, and colons. There are hyphens, short dashes, and long dashes. To…

ach 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…

Writing isn’t the only enterprise with its stress and need for creativity and excellent performance. To quote the wisdom of Solomon, there is a time for everything, a time to…

These days, most of the Scripture that some Christians read is what pops up on the screen during a weekend sermon. When quoting a verse, we need to spell out…

With rapidly advancing technology, we aren’t far from a generation of graduating high school seniors who can’t understand why anyone would use a print book. If all they’ve seen are…

A dozen engineering students built an elaborate contraption to open and pour two cans of Coke. After all this effort and many trials that didn’t work quite right, the final…

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…

We know what we mean, but do we always mean what we say? The pictures in our minds can easily blind us to what readers will understand from our words.…

How about some tasty Belgian chocolate? Andrew Farrugia used almost 700 hours of labor and 3,000 pounds of chocolate to sculpt a train 112 feet long, setting a new Guinness…

Without written form and rules, languages have evolved rapidly from one generation to the next. Because of all its written rules we learned in school, English has remained relatively constant…