Conversing with people years past occupied a place of tradition – face to face repertoires that we anticipated, and in which we routinely took pleasure. Verbal discourse (in the age of digital) has become somewhat antiquated when upstaged by texting, e-mail, and electronic back and forth. Oral skills (when shelved) remain dormant (or decline), particularly …Read the Rest

Fast and loose with the spoken word is one thing; but speech (when calcified on paper) can produce either extraordinary or devastating outcomes. Texting has transmorphed what was previously a domain of careful study and scrupulous forethought to a slapdash affair, one in which we may not take time to proofread. Instant has become the …Read the Rest