Heard two speakers back-to-back tonite go through a fairly scripted (but without notes) program to an audience mixted with kids and their parents. Due to the attention span of sleep-deprived, sugar-laced kids (and adults), the individual points were necessarily short...
As part of some research for a professional organization I am on the Board for, I had to call a vendor for information (because it wasn’t on their web site, but that’s for another blog entry). Got droid #1, who listened for a minute before saying I needed...
As a follow-up to the previous post on things that shouldn’t be said, there are also things that should be said.I was a newlywed of less than a year when I had some great advice passed on to me from someone who quoted it as being passed to them from a wise sage...
One of the phrases I hear a lot (more than I should — heard it today) in both private and public conversations is “I really shouldn’t say this, but…” When appropriate, I usually cut the speaker off and respond, “Then...
Asked to guest teach an hour lecture at church. Love to, said I. Spent time with the content — new to me — and had things all lined up. Perhaps not my best effort, but a winner nonetheless, I figured.Looked in my notebook a bit before class and...
All speakers have moments that they don’t plan, don’t want, and don’t need. Throats get tickled; minds forget lines; and tongues tangle over the simplest phrases. It’s impossible to ignore — from the speaker’s point-of-view. The...
