The great writer Samuel Beckett once said that “words are all we have.” Each day—which includes going to work each morning for many of us—we speak an average of 16,000 words. In fact, during one study ...

When you write an occasional column, you think about words. I like words. I try to find the right ones whether I’m talking or writing. Sometimes I succeed. In my last piece, there was this line. “It ...

Dorothy Sim-Broder recalls a customer who walked into her shop, Written Words Bookstore in Shelton, a few months after it opened three years ago. The woman looked around the store in dismay. "She said ...

Remember the saying, “Fool’s names and fool’s faces always seen in public places”? Let’s face it, it’s absolutely imperative we communicate by the spoken word or the written word. Thankfully we have a ...

The conscious field encompasses everything that one is aware of, and is experiencing, at one moment in time. For example, right now, as I am typing, I am aware of my computer, the smell of coffee, and ...

If you run a search for “mystery books” on Amazon.com, you’ll get over 213,000 results—and that’s after filtering by genre. What’s more, there are as many as one million books published in the US each ...

If you go to this page on my blog, you’ll find an introductory post about the use of artificial intelligence in generating written content, marketing messages, and personalized email. It won’t win any ...