Words Can Heal
A new non-profit was launched in September 2001 to reduce verbal violence and gossip in the United States, particularly in American schools. America was reeling from September 11 and we were in a state of crisis. Anger and fear caused us to strike out and nationalism and patriotism had the unintended side effects of alienating … Read more
Arty Words
From the New York Times Art Candy Mel Bochner’s Blah, Blah Blah (maroon) 2008Courtesy of Peter Freeman, Inc Words show up in the most unexpected places and in the most unusual ways. While walking through New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art in the spring of 2004, discovering what the latest and greatest trends were … Read more
Scrabble for the Right Word
It is a game that generates debates over the merits of quintar, qoph and qua as well as ba, be, bi, and bo – these are all legitimate words for SCRABBLE, a game invented during the American Great Depression by Alfred M. Butts, an out-of-work architect from Poughkeepsie, New York. The history of SCRABBLE is … Read more
