Make Speeches Boring Again
As some of us allow ourselves to imagine a time in the comprehensible future when we don’t feel like we’re hurtling through history backward, forward and sideways in a tumbling …
Speechwriting, now!
From a 2015 post on my personal blog, Writing Boots. —DM My pals were meeting me at the corner tavern in 15 minutes, when my wife came to me needing …
A hot take, four years old
Four years ago this week, I stood in a security line for an hour waiting to get out of the Quicken Loans Arena, after watching Donald Trump’s speech in acceptance …
Speechwriter, repent
When you run a professional association, you like to believe you’re doing good in the world. And that the industry you represent contributes to the health of humanity. And that …