For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
Sure-fire recipes are wonderful things, and the history of civilization can be read as the search for and discovery of such recipes. Unfortunately, it can also be read as a long line of claims to have discovered allegedly sure-fire recipes that turn out to be not so sure-fire after all. Every day we experience the […]
It’s commonly held that critical feedback never has to hurt so long as you deliver it tactfully. Tact transcends all resistance. There’s a nice way to say anything. I live by that belief and promote it to my students. I tell them to assume that there’s nothing they can’t say to anyone as long as […]
I left a band recently. I had my reasons but wasn’t sure whether to share them on exit. I didn’t want to be dishonest. I can remember times when people gave me vacuous excuses for parting with me. Here I had invested heavily in a relationship and they were too stingy to let me in […]
Last week New Yorker columnist George Packer noted that while Sarah Palin’s syntax is mangled, more significantly it lacks verbs. It’s mostly nouns. Maverick, hockey mom, Joe sixpack, elitist, terrorist, small-town people–lots of heavily loaded nouns. Loaded nouns and the adjectives that modify them are part of everyone’s vocabulary, but in recent decades–under the influence […]
Our election is 13 days away. If you’re bothered by my political focus lately, please know I’ll be back to the usual soon. This election is proving to be a referendum on the central tenets of Mindreaders Dictionary. I can’t resist making the connections. I watch this election from several perspectives. Among them: Mine: What […]
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