Get a Boost from a Blackout
Come to the dark side for more time and better focus.
Harness the Career Power of Sleep
Good nights of sleep = better days at work.
Recent Work | “Youth Apprenticeship: An Ancient Path to Modern Success”
Developing a well-planned, business-supported youth apprenticeship program in your school or district helps students learn in-demand skills while still in high school.
Talking in Dark Matter
My son is a statistics major, even though his father and I have always been theatre and communications types. We wonder where this math and data inclination came from, but every now and then, something [...]
Recent Work | METAVERO Collection
Brochures, banners, and postcards--oh, my! I worked with METAVERO, a Chicago company that provides Oracle services, to create a suite of branding components for their conference booth and future use.
Self-Help Back in the Day
Taking sides in politics based on how a candidate speaks is nothing new, it turns out. In “Founding Grammars,” Rosemarie Ostler looks at how U.S. politicians used formal or informal language, while regular Americans turned to grammar books to improve their station in life.
Recent Work | “Success Outside the Lines”
From ASCA School Counselor Sept-Oct 2015: How five non-traditional schools achieved national recognition for their school counseling programs.
Check Out that Figure!
From peliptoton to anaphora, Mark Fortsyth takes us on a delightful tour of the figures of rhetoric and shows how they've added style to writing across the centuries, with quips from Shakespeare Hemingway, John Lennon, and Gertrude Stein, to name just a few.
Exposed on Paper: What do your books say about you?
My books reveal my not-so-secret obsession: the English language.
Music Behind the Madness
When the stuff of a silent auction threatens to send me around the bend, I remember why I'm doing this work.