I attended my niece's wedding over the weekend, and I witnessed the latest sign of the impending apocalypse: the devolution of the weddi...

Yesterday I attended a Toastmaster speech competition. It was part of their International Speech competition - the only series of contests t...

Wow, what a mistake that was! More than a month without posting to this blog. I have lots of reasons: mostly my day job, with writing and pu...

Just got back from a company sales meeting from Orlando, and I am more convinced than ever that PowerPoint is the scourge of corporate commu...

All of us who love good writing and speaking must note the passing of William F. Buckley this week. I knew him mostly as a well-schooled, we...

Some things never change. Or perhaps they change slowly, even over decades. But set the Wayback Machine to early fall 1960, Sherman, and we’...

I was pleased to take part in an interview with Ryan Levesque and Bo Bennett on their Internet radio show, The Talking Toastmasters . Ryan a...

Is it official yet? Are John McCain and Barack Obama the candidates for President of the U.S.? Senator McCain seems to think so. Last night,...

If you are in Toastmasters International, please check out my article titled "Speaking in Business: Five lessons in corporate communica...

I recently attended a seminar on LinkedIn. Okay, I’m a little late to the party on this one. In fact, I was already in LinkedIn, but I wasn’...