I’d knew I’d be a writer when my eighth-grade English teacher told me to read aloud my essay on her two-page assignment called “If I could go anywhere in the world, where would that be and why?” While everybody else…

As an active bookmobile participant and Highlights fan from way back, I love to read.  I especially love well-written copy that’s so specific and so revealing that you can almost touch, see, smell or hear what’s being described.  Here are some…

Advertise here via BSA Remember all the talk years ago about how technology would make us a paperless society? Since that didn’t happen, we still handle tons of paper, nearly all of which involve written communications. In light of ongoing…

Where do you start? Just start writing. First, forget about things like margins, format, spelling, etc. Just start writing. Revisions come later. Second, write about anything. From spring tulips to tractor pulls, just pen your thoughts about any topic you…

Advertise here via BSA As a young reporter for a news weekly decades ago, I had been assigned to cover a controversial story regarding whether or not the faculty of a large university was going to issue a vote of…