Ah yes. Social media. How do I use it?

For the most part, I don’t use it…at least not very much.

I was active on Facebook for almost nine years–from November 2008 to October 2017. Then, on October 5, […]

Who ever thought we would have to resort to paying employees NOT to work, smh. Well, when you are ordered by the government to shut your business down because of a pandemic, you might have to do just that.

The […]

February: National Self-Check Month. Take charge of your health, and increase your odds of avoiding chronic diseases or other preventable diseases.

February: Free and Open Source Software Month. Recognize the […]

NAIWE writing prompt: What looks to be your big project of the week?

Well, I’m glad you asked, because I’ve actually got two big projects this week.

One is a copyedit of a scientific grant proposal. Grant […]

You have the opportunity to be interviewed as the featured member of the month on the NAIWE podcast and blog and in The Edge: Success Strategies for People Who Work with Words, one of NAIWE’s newsle […]

A blog post’s title has an important job: to get someone to read the post.

It holds that huge responsibility on the shoulders of about 60 to 70 characters—not a lot. That means you have to get creative to mak […]

Unless you write for an authoritative news site or have a rabid audience, you likely rely on external platforms to attract readers to your blog posts.

Whether readers click through to your site and how they […]

NAIWE prompt: Write about something in your life that is “worth it.”

I’m actually not about to write about something that’s “worth it,” but someone who is.

That would be my husband.

It’s long been my […]

This will be a short, but necessary, post. The state of our union is in some disarray after events at our nation’s capitol earlier this week. Now, I don’t get political … at least not here. But I just wanted to […]

We wanted to get to know Stephen Colwell (NAIWE’s Branding and Marketing Expert) better, so last month we sat down with him. Here are some thoughts he shared with us.

When a freelancer is working in a team […]

NAIWE prompt: Write a story on your NAIWE blog about the holidays. At the end of your post, note the subject of the most complicated sentence you wrote.

The week before Christmas (a Friday this year), I was […]