Language is the most powerful human tool. It is a tricky concept with 450,000 plus words in the English vocabulary. Over 116 homophones, these words that sound the same can have two completely ...

In the movie The Giver, the young protagonist Jonas asks a poignant question: "Father, do you love me?" His mother overhears this and immediately scolds him for using the word love, a word that's ...

"In the same way that emotions were once judged too vague for scientific study, but now have thriving fields, we hope that the study of spiritual experience follows suit" -(David Yaden & Andrew ...

For your amusement today I thought we might consider precision of language and its importance – a subject even I have struggled with, much to the frustration of some of my mentors. Believe it or not, ...

Mr. Rosenblatt is the author of “Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing,” as well as, most recently, “A Steinway on the Beach: Wounds and Other Blessings.” When I awoke last ...