Commencement Speech Writing 101
For those of us who work in education, this is commencement season. For me—an adjunct professor and full-time executive writer—that means ghost writing, as well as supporting a number of commencement speakers, whether or not I approach the stage myself. But commencement is one of my favorite seasons to write for, and when I finally […]
A Thousand Lives in a Single Year.
I brought in the year celebrating twenty-six years of marriage in Chicago, where outdoor signs in January read, “Caution! Falling Ice!” This is not something we Southerners ever see…
