Last month, I attended the UW-Madison Continuing Studies Writers’ Institute, which was tremendous. The last presentation of the Institute was a panel discussion about how to keep our enthusiasm for writing alive […]

The dialogue bubbles that appear on my smartphone in texts has got me thinking about dialogue (again), so I want to continue this topic from last month.

In response to last month’s article, one of my […]

In Lou Johnson’s satirical social commentary, ?#@*&%!! Some Things Really Were Better in the 1950s, he describes reality as he sees it in the twenty-first century—the bad, the worse, and the incredibly […]

We compare things every day and are constantly expressing our opinions about one thing or another. One way we do this is with the words different from and different than. To make your writing clear, […]

A pronoun allows the writer to make a reference to something without using the name each time. Pronouns replace one or more nouns in a sentence. For example, instead of using the nouns Amy, the bookcase, […]

Great leaders make the difference between mediocrity and excellence. For decades, MDA Leadership Consulting has worked with thousands of leaders around the globe in an effort to help organizations build a […]