Technical writer, journalist and author
Houston Astros fans everywhere are smiling today because the team won its first World Series championship last night. But surely nobody is smiling more than the man who created the ballclub in the first place. Roy Mark Hofheinz was born…
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A homonym is one of two or more words with the same pronunciation, and the same spelling, but different meanings. For example, the word “bank,” is a homonym, as in: “The campground is on the bank of the river.” (That…
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Ask the sports fan in your family about the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas, and chances are you’ll get a variety of answers. The stadium has been around a while, so a variety of answers is understandable. For many fans,…
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Many writers have written books about how (and why) they write. Some offer tips on how they edit their work and how they go about getting feedback from others. Feedback is always good. But there are other interesting things that…
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San Antonio has its share of famous architecture. It has the iconic (the Alamo), the historic (the missions), and the modern (the Tower of the Americas). The Tower Life Building sits to the west of the Tower of the Americas…
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News releases remain an important element of an effective communication strategy. Yet with all the technological changes going on, they can often be overlooked. Some questions people ask about news releases include: 1. Aren’t news releases obsolete? No, news releases…
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Texas-OU weekend is here, and among the pomp and circumstances of the football game is the playing of the University of Texas alma mater, “The Eyes of Texas.” Here are some things you might not know about the song: 1….
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In a world of increasingly complex products and services, users often want to just “strap it on and go,” as test pilots might say. They’re not interested in reading all the useful documentation that accompanies the product or explains how…
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Susannah Dickinson Hannig wasn’t the only survivor of the Alamo, but she was perhaps the most famous. Like many early Texas settlers, Susanna Wilkerson came from Tennessee. She married her husband, Almeron, there in 1829. They came to Texas in…
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A friend of mine lamented to me recently that she had a hard time writing articles. All she knew, she said, was to focus on the who, what, where, when, why, and how. Actually, that’s all she, or anyone else,…
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