Author, marketer and social-media guru Chris Brogan posted a great list of suggestions for authors interested in raising awareness of themselves and their work via social media. It is comprehensive and, as one who have connected with many wonderful people through nearly each of the items in the list, I’m confident this plan would “work”. …

“When did it become accepted that actions that are right and moral – like paying employees a decent wage – have to be explained away and justified?  When did we accept the notion that people should be moral in their lives but that the moment they show up for work their morality is subsumed by…

In today’s USA Today Faith and Reason column, Cathy Lynn Grossman discusses President Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. If Kagan’s nomination is accepted, Grossman points out, there will be six Catholic justices, three Jewish justices (Kagan is Jewish) and no protestant Christian justices on the Court. This, of course,…

In a recent interview for a position in the highly competitive NBC page program, one of my students was asked for a list of five things he could do with a pencil. I had him share the encounter with the rest of his class – including his list of five very creative answers – to…

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