Between or Among– Which is Correct?

As humans, we hide behind euphemisms. Nobody dies, they “pass away”. Nobody fails, they’re just “differently successful”. The same is true of dropouts. Nobody wants to say the word. During my research of dropouts, one thing was most consistent. Not a single research source simply came out and said that the subject was a dropout,…

The clock on my office wall was demon possessed, of that I am certain. At first it was kind of subtle– a few minutes ahead one day, three minutes slow the next. Close enough for a punctuality scofflaw like me. But when one minute it was close and five minutes later it was off by…

Almost all of us get distracted and go chasing down rabbit trails from time to time. Some of us spend our entire lives exploring rabbit trails and never seem to accomplish much. As a general rule, rabbit trails are counterproductive. They distract us from focusing on the job at hand, and they lead to yet…

There are four essentials that clients hope and need to get from their professionals. These are respect, fair pricing, satisfaction, and minimized risk. There are four essentials that professionals hope and need to get from their clients. These are respect, fair compensation, satisfaction, and minimized risk. The case for alignment could not be clearer. The…

Language is fluid and always changing, evolving in strange and often contradictory ways. So, for example, while North American and British English are mutually intelligible, several hundred years of separation have produced different sound systems and different vocabularies. These differences would be much more pronounced if we did not have printing presses and modern media…

Last week I wrote “… our secret sauce is our professional reputation. In simple terms, the very best clients for each of us are those we are uniquely enabled to serve, and they will come to us because the word is out that we have the exact solution they need.” So now the question is,…