There are many ways in which you might obscure a message that you are trying to send. One of them is by burying the main idea somewhere in the middle of a body of text instead of at the beginning or at the end. Another is by providing too much background information. Similarly, being too […]
If you’ve ever told a woman to smile, you may want to rethink that approach. I’ve sometimes been exhorted to smile, even when I’m not unhappy. Perhaps folks do this because people feel more secure if women are smiling; they think it means that women are happy, or happy with them. In fact, though, a […]
This morning, Julie stepped outside to go to her massage appointment and found her car . . . gone! She looked up and down the street, and couldn’t see it. It must have been stolen, she thought. Just to be sure, she called Ken to check where he had parked it when he came home […]
Someone punched a dent in my metal front door. They did it before I moved in, and I didn’t think much about it until today. I had just assumed that someone moving furniture in or out had accidentally bumped into the door. Today, though, the light fell on it at just the right angle and […]
