I am happy to announce a new feature of my Substack account: "The Writing I Do: Notes from the Desk of a Working Writer." "The Writing I Do" is a weekly video describing a challenge I faced in my professional life and how I wrote my way through it. It draws on my work as … Continue reading The Writing I Do: New Advice Feature On Substack
Americans Are Losing Out Because So Few Speak a Second Language
Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, a signatory of the American Academy call-to-action, Bridging America's Language Gap, calls for improved language education in an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle.
On the First Idea
The best communicators aim for what Wallace Stevens once called “the first idea”—the original truth behind their words.
First Idea Communications 