Beyond the Rhetoric

You’ve got less than 24 hours and your wallet is running on empty. In case you haven’t noticed the marketing blitz at your local shopping mall, Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. Unless you plan on sleeping on the couch (again), it may be in your best interest to do something for your significant other on V-Day, [...]

“A dog in the hunt doesn’t stop to scratch its fleas.” I was reading through Blink by Malcolm Gladwell last night when he made mention of the quote above. If you think about how determined a dog can get when it is in the middle of a hunt, you really start to realize how easy [...]

These are two topics that are very near and dear to my heart. I am a freelance writer by trade and, in case you haven’t noticed, money is pretty important around these parts. You’ve got to be careful with both writing and your cash. For this edition of What’s Up Wednesdays, we take a look [...]

About a week ago, I was approached by a fellow freelance writer who had a question. He asked me how he could “be productive with anger issues.” Anger is a normal human emotion, but it’s probably not the best emotion to use while you are trying to work. The solution, for better or for worse, [...]

Over the weekend, we may have witnessed a possible social suicide on Twitter. A battle of words broke out between two individuals with different opinions and this quickly escalated to a series of personal attacks. Given the public nature of Twitter, everyone who was following these two individuals was able to track their “conversation.” Also, [...]