Your generous donation helped raise $105 thousand dollars for the American Heart Association! That’s right, $105 thousand. You are a member of the #1 fund-raising team! Your support of the AHA and me personally are 2 things for which I’m grateful.
I was happy to hear all this good news,... (Read More)
I was pedaling away in spin class, gasping for air during a particularly long song, when the instructor yelled, “You have fewer than three minutes to go.” Then, perhaps to distract us from the pain of those remaining minutes, she explained the difference between fewer and less. “I just learned... (Read More)
Fidel Castro held on to power longer than any other living national leader except Queen Elizabeth II.
So read a line in the Cuban leader’s recent obituary, which was enlightening for many reasons, one being its appropriate use of on and to following the verb held.
When to... (Read More)
A neighborhood hotel sent out a flyer pitching its venue as a top spot for an unforgettable holiday party: Christmas Décor including a festive Christmas Tree in each room! A complimentary Champagne Toast with mention of this flyer!
Christmas is a proper noun, so it’s always capitalized, and Champagne is... (Read More)
Companies—and people—like to talk about their legacies, which is understandable. Most want to make a difference and be remembered for what they did. Right now, for example, Barack Obama is thinking a lot about his presidential legacy.
Problem is legacy also refers to something that is on its way to... (Read More)
When food giant Mondalez dropped its doomed bid to buy chocolate giant Hershey, Irene Rosenfeld, chairman and CEO of Mondalez, wrote that her company determined there was no actionable path forward toward an agreement.
Actionable, which means capable of being acted on, can have a place in business writing—albeit... (Read More)
I was recently on vacation in a cell phone-free zone. In the lounge of the hotel where I was staying, a sign invited me to leave my cell phone in my room. Its exact words were, If you want to use your phone, we invite you to use it in... (Read More)
When Aaron Bell, the CEO of an online advertising placement firm, interviewed with Microsoft when he was just 16 years old, he was asked, “How do you know the light goes off in the refrigerator when you close the door?” His response? “I would put my baby sister in the... (Read More)
I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough to get to the full story—a humorous take on what to do about falling birth rates in upstate New York. The story, it turned out, wasn’t nearly as exciting as the headline, but that’s a topic for another bulletin.
Article titles, PowerPoint... (Read More)
She is untrustable, a political commentator said about Hillary Clinton the other day.
If you type that line using Word, a red squiggly mark will appear underneath untrustable telling you it’s not a word. She is not trustworthy, is what the pundit should have said.
People seem to... (Read More)
