I know I’m not for everyone. I am not a wordsmith who’s known for a vocabulary that requires a dictionary to pull in readers. When I write, I tend to avoid “big” words because I don’t talk like that.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tonight my heart was crushed as my 17-year old daughter confessed to me she had cried not once but twice to two separate family ...

Finding the right word at the right time gives each of us the chance to take in a moment of joy — or is that just me? At any rate, I believe in observing little blips of joy in whatever form they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Improving your vocabulary is like upgrading your toolkit for communication. Having a range of words to choose from allows you to ...

When you write an occasional column, you think about words. I like words. I try to find the right ones whether I’m talking or writing. Sometimes I succeed. In my last piece, there was this line. “It ...

Text-based art is one of those things that you either love or loathe–there’s rarely a middle ground. While some artists make the written word the basis of their full body of work (see Jenny Holzer, ...

ROCK SPRINGS — Attendees at a workshop recently had the opportunity to learn how dementia affects communication. They also received tips for communicating well with family, friends and health care ...

Co-authored with Eileen Cardillo, DPhil. Just as tip-of-the-tongue moments provoke a unique form of frustration, finding just the right word elicits a particular kind of satisfaction. Every time we ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va.- In a cruel twist of fate, 22-year-old Army Cryptological Linguist, Spc. Prudence Pingrey, who was about to embark on the most exciting chapter of her life, had a stroke. “I had just ...