Don’t suffocate inside your COVID bubble

Don’t suffocate inside your COVID bubble My husband and I recently gathered with friends for a socially distant dinner on their back porch. These occasions, routine in our pre-COVID lives, have...

Looking for truth in all the wrong places

Looking for truth in all the wrong places Labor Day once marked the beginning of the political season, eight weeks prior to Election Day  in November. It was when vacations ended, the kids returned...

Get the best out of brainstorming

Get the best out of brainstorming  One of the best things my partner and I do is brainstorm together. We put some music on, get coffee brewing and go to work. One of us stands at the whiteboard, the...

Old lies, new lies and Facebook

As Facebook executives themselves admit, a disinformation campaign flourished on the social media platform ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign, with abundant lies from trolls both foreign and...

Just Write!

Just Write! I am a writing procrastinator. Just ask my husband and business partner, who was one of my first newspaper editors. I used to rewrite a story’s lead over and over again before moving to...

Always spell-check your spell checker

Always spell-check your spell checkerA few years back, I had the privilege of interviewing a veteran who had overcome a severe case of PTSD following his military service in Iraq.This father of five...