Month: <span>December 2019</span>

Any time something in your life needs changing is a good time to take steps, but the start of a new year is a particularly appropriate time to make that change.

It’s Christmas! Did you get the gifts you wanted? Did you give people—your kids, if you have kids, your significant other, whoever else is on your gift list—what they wanted? Do you know what people REALLY want—your kids, your significant other, your other relatives, your friends? Do you know what they really want from you,...

Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Not everyone does. (I don’t.) And many of those who do make resolutions find that by the middle of February, if not the middle of January, they’ve broken several if not all of them.

People have fallen for much more outlandish beliefs than this one. In fact, there’s a site online called Snopes.com that made its reputation by debunking all the false and misleading stories that circulate, occasionally by word of mouth but predominantly on the internet. But did you know—can you believe—there was a time when people believed...

“You’ve got a typo in your first paragraph,” I said to the friend whose manuscript I was glancing at. “The editor will fix it,” he said with a shrug. “That’s what editors are for.”