San Diego, beautiful city by the sea, is opening its arms for a Word Detectives weekend workshop with Pete Bowers ...

Reflections on a New Year (Scroll Down for LEX study opportunities this year, and a special offer) The older I ...

My new TED-Ed video has posted. Check it out here or on TED-Ed for the full lesson (with supplemental materials): ...

Recently, some correspondence with a couple of different teachers has focused my attention on interesting sets of etymological relatives. For ...

A teacher in one of my training classes this year sent me a wonderful email this morning, informing me that ...

This always seems to happen: deadlines sneak up on people and I always get registration inquiries for my workshops at ...

I pretty much think about words all the time, and encounter interesting language questions every day. Sometimes I just hold ...

Pete Bowers and I were destined to meet. Back in the fall of 2008, I was connected to him through ...

This is an account of a teacher training I gave to a group of about 40 Amish schoolteachers in Arthur, ...

I just emailed Dr. Kelli Sandman-Hurley to congratulate her on her impressive TED-Ed video on dyslexia, which I will certainly ...

Every time I come to post something on here, I feel like I need to start with an apology, because ...

A friend just pointed me to this site, Illustrated Etymology, where creative types illustrate the histories of words, as researched ...