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GREAT WRITING: WHEN WORDS MATTER MORE

December 6, 2025 by

From Google AI on current sentence construction:   Basic Structure: Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) Subject: Who/what the sentence is about (e.g., Matt). Verb: The action or state of being (e.g., eats). Object: Receives the action (e.g., pizza). Example: “Matt eats pizza.”

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THE RIGHT WORDS HAVE POWER

September 19, 2025 by

You know the right words when you hear them. “Everything will be okay.” “You’re doing fine.” “This is just how it’s supposed to work out.” “You’re the one for me.”

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WRITTEN RULES TO FOLLOW

July 12, 2025 by

Written rules started early for baby boomers. “Do this, not that, and do it better than you did last time. I’ll write it down so you don’t forget.” From yard work to school work, to spending time with friends, there were rules. Ignore the rules and you might be the kid standing in the corner […]

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CANCER TREATMENT CHALLENGES IN 2025

March 31, 2025 by

Cancer treatment. Are there two more frightening words in any vocabulary? If you have any friends or family in it, you know. But, if it’s never touched up anyone you know, they are only words. Just words in passing.

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LIFE PLANS? MAKE THEM SOONER THAN LATER

April 6, 2024 by

Who makes life plans? Who has a life plan? I don’t, but my wife does. Always has. She’s got a plan for everything, then back-up plans for every possibility along with back-up plans for the back-up plans. But I knew this from the start. How?

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DIFFERENCE MAKER, THE RECIPE

March 27, 2024 by

A difference maker is often the last to know what’s up. Who has ever been to a funeral or memorial and heard strangers talk about the deceased in terms so glowing it sounds like nobody you know. And you’ve known them most of your life. How does that happen?

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PERSUASIVE POWER OF WORDS NOT SPOKEN

August 13, 2023 by

My persuasive power, if any, comes with words attached. It comes with observation that hopefully morphs into helpful insights. Or, when I swing and miss it’s just another load of ‘look at me’ like my blogging brethren. Let’s take a look together, shall we?

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ANNOYING WORDS. ONLY WORDS?

August 2, 2023 by

Annoying words can be found everywhere. In any book, on any TV show, and coming out of the mouths of people I like. Go ahead and sweep your life clear of people who don’t respect your point of view, your ‘beliefs’, or the car you drive, and you’ll still be stuck with annoying words. In […]

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LEARNING HOW THINGS WORK? FIRST LEARN WORDS

June 15, 2023 by

Learning how to do anything takes a special effort when you already know everything. Then you find out what you’ve learned is wrong and your time and energy feels wasted? After that it’s pointing fingers, assigning blame. Or, there’s another way to justify the time and energy to learn how things work. Call it a […]

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WORDPLAY POWER GOES WRONG? WATCH YOUR TONGUE

October 13, 2021 by

Wordplay power: the activity of joking about the meanings of words, especially in an intelligent way. Those are the funny people having fun with wordplay power. Intelligent funny people. They see things and hear things that make them laugh, and we laugh along. The meaning of words changes over time. So has what’s been considered funny. Oddly enough, we change over time, too. What about […]

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