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Tag: Power of Language

Books…

If You Ask Advice from an Author

15 Jun 2011
If you ask 22 author friends for advice, they'll write you a whole book! Steve Silberman had been reporting on professionals with autism/Asperper's and became an expert on such neurodiversity,…
Advertising…

Your Brain on Ads

14 Jun 201114 Jun 2011
Take a therapist who trained her daughter to watch media, including ads, with critical attention. Now imagine this daughter, Maya Cueva--already a journalist while still a teenager--not only applying that…
Caring…

Record of Settlement

4 Jun 20113 Jun 2011
Icelander Baldur Hedinsson can trace his lineage to 1075; that's how complete the Icelandic records are. It's a culture based on reading through the dark winters and they wrote, too. (Oh,…
Books…

Rhyme Time

2 Jun 20112 Jun 2011
Children's book editors conventionally whine about rhyme. It's so hard to write tight in rhythm and rhyme, they'd rather not brave it. Then they have children of their own, and…
Creativity…

Friday Flick: Marriage Proposal

27 May 201127 May 2011
Usually, I cringe over public marriage proposals. Somehow this one seems different, maybe because the theme of Matt and Ginny's courtship has been "Making the Movies Jealous," it has high…
Baby Boomers…

Have you seen this woman?

26 Apr 201126 Apr 2011
Photographer Bruce Davidson took this photo of a teenaged girl holding a kitten 50 years ago. Now as he receives the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award, he would like to…
Blogging…

“Show Me Difficult”

20 Apr 201122 Apr 2011
Werner Erhard often talks about things that exist only in language: "Show me Difficult. Whales do not find anything Difficult." And he also says something like, "I don't have 'too…
Commitment…

Anne Egros on Goal Setting in 7 Steps

18 Apr 201116 Apr 2011
Anne Egros coaches people with international careers. I enjoyed her blog post: "Quick Goal Setting in Seven Steps," especially steps 2, 3, and 4, the steps between writing down your…
Children…

Square Inch Journaling

16 Apr 201116 Apr 2011
One of my favorite baby gifts was an undated one-year calendar with stickers for baby milestones: first bath, first tooth, first word. When my second baby arrived, I realized that…
Change the World…

In Case of Rejection

13 Apr 2011
As poet Wesley McNair braved rejections, his mentor Donald Hall comforted him with these observations: "These feelings simply do not end! Believe me I am sympathetic with your feelings, but…
Business…

HBR on Hiring Humanities Majors

6 Apr 20116 Apr 2011
Second Road's Tony Golsby-Smith writes for a Harvard Business Review guest blog, "People trained in the humanities who study Shakespeare's poetry, or Cezanne's paintings, say, have learned to play with…
Academic Writing…

Bilingual Brain Advantage

4 Apr 20114 Apr 2011
During the decade politicians were banning bilingual education, I was in graduate school studying linguistics, including language acquisition--even bilingual language acquisition--and wishing we could all have bilingual (or trilingual) education.…

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