11th July 2009
by Philip Yaffe
To try to pre-empt people from misreading between the lines, let me clearly declare that the purpose of this article is in no way to challenge anyone's faith, but rather to better define my own.
I am now approaching the proverb...
12th June 2009
by Philip Yaffe
Part 17 of an occasional series
I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school.
I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose". The...
12th June 2009
by Philip Yaffe
Over the past 40-plus years as a journalist and marketing communication consultant, I have frequently been told that I am an exceptionally good writer by teachers, friends, colleagues, and clients. But I wasn’t always a good write...
06th June 2009
by Philip Yaffe
Part 16 of an occasional series
I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school.
I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose". The...
06th June 2009
by Philip Yaffe
If you were there at the time, you will find it hard to realize that the 50th anniversary of the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is rapidly approaching. The iconic 35th President of the United States was elected in a close-run c...
19th May 2009
by Philip Yaffe
Mark Twain famously said: "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
Of course he was absolutely right -- and partially wrong.
As every profes...
19th May 2009
by Philip Yaffe
Part 15 of an occasional series
I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school.
I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose". The...
19th May 2009
by Philip Yaffe
Because they were extracted from human blood, the first-generation hepatitis B vaccines developed in the early 1980s had significant drawbacks, including high cost, low availability, and the possibility of unsuspected contamination ...
15th May 2009
by Philip Yaffe
Someone once said (it may have been me): "There is no dull information, only dull writers."
We have all had the misfortune of reading very dull texts and sitting through very dull presentations. But were they inherently dull? O...
15th May 2009
by Philip Yaffe
We all live with misconceptions about the world. This is quite normal. No one can be an expert in everything, so we simplify our learning into easy-to-remember snippets, which are often very close to the truth, but never quite there...
12th May 2009
by Philip Yaffe
As someone once said (it may have been Einstein, but it may have been someone else): "The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine."
Whoever may have said it, in 1929 a certain Robert Riple...
12th May 2009
by Philip Yaffe
In virtually all walks of live -- business, education, politics, research, etc. -- documents of more than a few of pages consist of the body and an executive summary. Unfortunately, most writers treat the executive summary as an aft...
20th June 2008
by Philip Yaffe
Ever since it became popular, I have been hearing that writing for the Web is different from writing for print. I have always been skeptical of this assertion and now after years of experience I am certain that it is wrong.
To ...
20th June 2008
Part 6 of an occasional series
I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school.
I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose". These short quotations can ...
06th June 2008
by Philip Yaffe
Part 5 of an occasional series
I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school.
I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose". These ...
