Alan Alda, as he’d be the first to admit, never went to medical school (although he did address the 1979 commencement at Harvard Medical School). But as Hawkeye on M.A.S.H., Alda helped millions of viewers understand the crucially important role medics play in wartime. Pat Dempsey, playing Grey’s Anatomy’s Doctor Derek Shepherd, at least has […]
As a professional writer, I derive pleasure out of a nicely turned phrase, a “word tidbit”, if you will. In an earlier blog, I shared one nice tidbit used by The New York Times to report on high food prices. Then, just the other day, I read another really great word tidbit in the Journal […]
I’m fond of thinking of ghost blogging as an art, but, truth be told, there’s quite a bit of science to it as well. Part of the science has to do with targeting an audience. By that I mean your blog can’t be all things to all people, any more than your business can be […]
As a ghost blogger, I’m always alert for interesting ways in which words are used. Leafing through my program book at the symphony concert, I noticed an ad for Arts Trust license plates. You’ve no doubt seen these specialty plates that can be ordered through the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. The extra fee you pay […]
When it comes to spelling, we Americans appear to fall into four camps. First we have the functionally illiterate (around 30 million of us) who lack basic writing skills, with spelling being the least of the problems. At the opposite end we have the reformers, the ones lobbying Congress to simplify English spelling. (At spelling […]
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