A lagniappe may sound like a French pastry, but this word that flows trippingly off the tongue like a gently meandering stream can help businesses retain customers.
I fell in love with the word years ago when reading the New Orleans Times-Picayune, which always ended a column of this ‘n’ that with a lagniappe: an unexpected […]
By day I WRITE4FUN, but in the evenings I READ4FUN, so the notion of sharing my love of books with my neighbors immediately appealed to me. I found ready-to-construct little libraries online, but iconoclastically decided to do my own thing.
My functional 1930s Direct Action stove fits charmingly into my kitchen décor. Yes, I light the tiny broiler and oven pilots with a match, and yes, I adjust the temperature by hand, and yes, it occasionally needs a D&C, and sometimes a full-blown repair.
Today’s online readers succinctly condemn excessively long text in four words:
When one door closes, another opens. For me, the latter was a doggie door ...
The WRITE Touch began on a cheery yellow shoestring that resides on my office wall as a daily reminder of the leap I took on April 25, 1988 when I established my communications business.
Near the beginning of my Sunday morning run on January 20, 2013, I met a 42-year-old woman. Over the course of our slow-paced, conversation-filled 11 miles, we came to know each other. Guadalupe’s English is on a par with my Spanish, but we understood each other just fine.
In addition to running, it turns out we […]
I’ve learned so much about life from the people whose stories I tell. When I asked
Many pundits say print is dead, but ...
In Spring 2012, two vibrant Vista businesswomen bought a musty building previously home to a tennis racquet-stringing business in a moribund downtown desperately in need of revitalization. With fresh paint ...
