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The ABC’s of a Church Website: D-F is now online. It’s the second part of a multi-part series of tips for church websites. It’s especially helpful if you’re using WordPress as your CMS. My review of El Charrito, a local Mexican restaurant, is now online at the Eating Fred, Texas blog. You should read it, if not for the witticisms ever inherent in my writing, then for the movie trailer that I link to towards the end of the piece. [...]

Editors have to see what most of us don’t. There may be a gem of a good idea hidden beneath a mountain of prose. Or, there may be mellifluous words that are all sound and no fury. Either way, it’s the editor’s job to point the errant writer to the path of writeousness. (Yes, I know. I can hear the groans from here). The Evil Editor (actual identity unknown) exists to help those that can’t help themselves. He or she [...]

“Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet.”

[or the 2.13 Million Dollar Comma] [or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Comma] [or Comma-tose: When English Majors Sleep on the Job] “A grammatical blunder may force Rogers Communications Inc. to pay an extra $2.13-million to use utility poles in the Maritimes after the placement of a comma in a contract permitted the deal’s cancellation.The controversial comma sent lawyers and telecommunications regulators scrambling for their English textbooks in a bitter 18-month dispute that serves as an [...]

I think anyone who reads this blog should read this article. Jake Schrum, President of Southwestern University, my alma mater, wrote it. It’s entitled Looking at Hiring? Take a Look at English Majors, and it quite succinctly makes the case why English majors are a necessity to any business. I feel vindicated and encouraged.