by Susan Parker | Jun 6, 2024 | News
Word Count: 1262 words Estimated Read Time: About 6 minutes You have written something you think is good, or at least not terrible. You hand it in to your boss and days later it comes back, all marked up with lengthy comments or re-written using words that aren’t your...
by Susan Parker | Apr 29, 2024 | News
Word Count: 797 words Estimated Read Time: About 4 minutes When I was in my mid-20s I got my dream job at a daily newspaper. Actually at first, it was just an internship with a looming deadline. I had to prove myself in four weeks to get hired full time. The hardest...
by Susan Parker | Mar 21, 2024 | News
WORD COUNT: 618 ESTIMATED READ TIME: About 3 minutes Not long ago, I was in Peru traveling with a small group of highly-accomplished and adventurous women. They included a pediatric radiation oncologist, a commercial banker, and a wildlife illustrator. Each woman was...
by Susan Parker | Oct 5, 2023 | News
Word Count: 785 words Estimated Read Time: About 3 minutes When you are about to write something professionally, just about any communications person, including me, will inevitably ask “who is your audience?” I’m beginning to realize that is a really bad question for...
by Susan Parker | Sep 6, 2023 | News
Word count: 991 Estimated read time: About 4 minutes I could feel my heart racing. I was a reporter in Guatemala at a time when the civil war was raging. Bomb scares were part of daily life. My colleagues and I nervously entered our building every day. Yet it...
