We’ve all heard the saying: “A picture’s worth a thousand words.” The earliest recorded use of the sentiment was in 1911, where newspaper...

Millennials and the younger end of Generation X are rapidly taking over the bulk of the work force, and with that comes change. They stay...

Each of us began our professional lives with certain goals in sight. We enter the working world, fresh from college or straight from high...

I know it's the off-season, but did you ever watch the Olympics? From the trials and tribulations of the planning and set up to a virus...

Happy New Year! Welcome back to our blog series and to our updated website. You didn’t see a post from us in the fourth quarter of last...

Everybody should write. Everybody. Whether through fiction, non-fiction, a blog about your thrilling hobbies, or a run-of-the-mill...

I am the child of a successful writer and a librarian. To me, nothing beats the smell of a good book. Whether it is old and musty or...

We know that we've been gone for a bit, working on some exciting projects we look forward to sharing with you in the coming weeks and...

Those of you who regularly read the posts here on the Present Tense Blog (or at least those of you out there who know enough to trust...

ebook is an odd term. Sure, the idea of an electronic book is intuitive in its purest form. You share an author’s words online in a...

I found blogging before I found yoga, on a long-term travel journey where writing took hold. One year later, yoga entered my life and...

If you search online for information about a “skills gap” in the US workforce, you will find ample evidence, such as an article last year...

How many times a week do you find yourself saying, jokingly or otherwise, “I need to get out more”? For me, there are weeks where it’s...

If you read this blog, chances are that you're a business-minded go-getter like my fellow contributors. You probably also have a...

Switching careers – especially if you start your own business mid-career – will leave you short on so many resources: time, money, backup...

Obituaries are fascinating. When you really get down to it, your last impression is very much like your first impression: you only get...

Politics provides lots of possibilities to witness the power of words and stories. What happened this week at the Iowa caucuses in the US...

There's an old axiom that everyone has a book in them and I, for one, agree with it. There's also a slightly more cynical version that...

When I was a high school teacher, there were never enough hours or minutes in a day, much less week, month, or year to get everything...

The classic “make-or-buy” decision often neglects one important aspect: what the end-user wants. That became clear to me as my team and I...