Beyond the Rhetoric

It really is amazing what you can accomplish when you set your mind to it. Beyond the Rhetoric started way back in March 2006 as the re-imaging of my first major website, Now That’s Entertainment. At the time, I updated the blog rather sporadically, but that has changed in recent years. I now make it [...]

“I never thought it was such a bad little tree… It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.” Most of us are familiar with the sad little tree from A Charlie Brown Christmas. Charlie Brown was sent out by the rest of the Peanuts crew to buy the best Christmas [...]

They say that you should live your life in moderation and I mostly agree with that mantra. At the same time, I think we have to indulge ourselves from time to time. Some people find great pleasure in buying a new toy of some kind. Other people indulge in a lazy Sunday afternoon parked in [...]

Negotiation is a necessary part of life. This is true when it comes to the business of freelance writing, just as it is true with the personal relationships you have with your family members. It may not always be easy, but you need to approach these negotiations in good faith and you need to enter [...]

Every Wednesday, I gather up some blog posts that piqued my interest in the preceding week and then I share these posts with the Beyond the Rhetoric community. The Internet is a vast and overwhelming place, so I think it’s good to get a little direction from time to time as to what you should [...]