The Communications Coach

Words and pictures can really get the point across. I ’ve been thinking about persuasion lately. Not the plaid-jackete...

Most writers chose this profession because our word skills were greater than our mathematical abilities. Nevertheless, numbers in our ...

Adapted from Michael Quinion, World Wide Words You may have heard those odd names for big bottles of wine such as Magn...

The Art of Being Clear We planned to construct a dumbwaiter in the new house we are building. The idea of getting coffee, tea, and snack...

I've been called on lately to lead several workshops and I'm always struck by how much fun it is when people learn together. And ...

Concrete begins as careless, slovenly, and entirely feckless. It is promiscuous and easygoing, willing to flow this way and that, open t...

We are building an earth-sheltered house, hoping to be more sustainable, on the wooded banks of the fastest-flowing part of the Salmon Riv...

Where the Stories Live is a novel I wrote that you can download for free in PDF format. The file size is 772 mb, that should take you less ...

Do up your aglets, snug your keeper, and watch out for spraints. It’s time to learn 33 Names of Things You Never Knew Had Names. Here's ...

As of 30 November 2005, the Oxford English Dictionary contained about 301,100 main entries. The dictionary's latest, complete print edi...