At the Table on Election Day

Note: I've been putting off updating my blog because I promised to continue working on how to use styles for writing. I'll still get back to that, but I have some thoughts I want to get out, beginning with today's post on Election Day Communion. This election day, Central Baptist Church participated in a brilliant…

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Rule of communication

I want to take a brief pause in my “styles” series to share some thought on how/when I choose to communicate. I'd love to hear your own thoughts in the comments! I'm calling this a “rule,” in that it helps to order my electronic communication life. Phone Calls I am well-known for my general aversion…

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Style Tips – Headings

People love to manually format headings, it seems to be a compulsion.  Still, using styles can make word pressing a lot easier.

Get a with the styles, please

Any time I begin to collaborate on documents, I inevitably come up against one of the greatest banes of the desktop publishing world, manually formatted text. This is a particular difficulty with website submissions. In submitted web articles text comes in manually formatted with headers, often with line breaks following to make the text look…

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What a way to end Summer

Shortly before I returned from vacation I received an email from my church treasurer. It had some updates on ongoing projects, nothing out of the ordinary. The last line, however, stood out. It said, “I would also like for you to be my guest at the Bruce Springsteen concert on September 2.” Accepting the invitation…

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Using Google Voice as a “home” number

Last month we finally “cut the cord” and rid our house of both cable television and home phone service. We still wanted to have a “home” number to give out to business and acquaintances, however, so we set up a Google Voice number and set it to ring the phones of both my wife and…

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