The Number One Way to Win in Life: Communication Competence

Communication competence is key to success and happiness. The basics of communication are easy to master – Fill this hole in your education in five minutes!
Medical Mis-Treatment

You’re not sick. You’re crazy. Silly. Don’t know your own body. Medical Gaslighting: How physicians fail a significant portion of the population.
Tea Time Stories: Entertaining

How About Curling Up with a Good Story? How about tea with all the authors you love – or hate? Dinner with Barbara Cartland does not go as planned.
Up & Down

Until the hovering crystal ladder appeared, no one in Turnersville noticed the dented aluminum bucket, with its sisal rope handle, resting in Hobson’s field…
No Tock-Tick

Master ablaut reduplication? You already have – even though you have no idea what it is! Here are four speech rules you didn’t know you know.
Vandals at the Frame

Destruction of art has a long and glorious tradition. But there is a difference between the vandal and the artist destroying the work.
Powerless Speech: 3 Disagreeable Vocal Habits You Can Cure

Be confident. Your voice is your superpower. Here are three pointers and exercises to improve your voice and delivery – and eliminate powerless speech habits.
30 Quick Ideas to Spark Creativity

Creatives get stuck. Writer’s block? Hovering pencil? Haven’t pressed the shutter in weeks? Here are 30 ideas to get you going again.
An Open Very Nasty Letter to the Asshole in the White Van

My patience and compassion are gone. If you hurt me or mine, I will sue. I will hunt you and yours down with the nuclear power of a supernova.
The Hurricane

A poem about death and loss, and the hopelessness akin to enduring a hurricane when there is nothing you can do but wait it out.
Our Space

Motherhood is a role I had. My job is done. My future is to follow the roads my children chart. No one needs me. What am I now? What is my role? Who am I now?
Choose Happy

Positive psychologists have calculated the exact elements for happiness: “The Happiness Formula.” No, it’s not a complicated mathematical equation… no worries.