My thanks to the surprising number of folks who emailed me about the problems that essentially froze this site for the past two days. I spent hours—and I literally mean...

Typos make me crazy. And not just typos. Misspellings and grammatical mistakes, too. You labor over a piece of writing—whether it’s one of these posts, an article for a magazine...

In my former life I owned and ran an advertising agency in Honolulu and was occasionally asked to speak to marketing students at the University of Hawaii. On one such...