Bobby Jindal is supposed to be the front-running Republican for the next Presidential election? Couldn't prove it by his response to P...

I love awards shows. The pomp! The flair! The organization of it all! People asked me over the years where I picked up the flourishes that h...

Pablo Picasso once said that artists borrow, but great artists steal. For a great artist, Picasso could really be full of crap sometimes, sp...

Have you ever found yourself out of tune with your own dreams? I did, but I didn't know it. But, thanks to my wife, Marie, I found a dre...

I had a great privilege today when I spoke to a group of kids who are in a speech and leadership program in Princeton, NJ. My great friend, ...

I have just returned from a weekend religious retreat (Catholic), which is often a great way for me to start a year. The priest who ran the ...

I had a college English teacher who had our class read the execrable tear-jerker, " Love Story ," saying that we could learn from ...

Here are my thoughts on President Obama's inaugural address. This blog is about speech and not politics, and you can add me to the chor...

The other night I gave a brief seminar as a Toastmaster project. The topic was Proactive Preparation, and the source of the content was a ch...

Sarah Palin is worth studying because she has become a textbook case of how to guarantee bad press for yourself. Here is what she teaches ...