Author Archives: Scott Smith

Feeling Their Pain: Addressing Heavy-Backpack Syndrome

My son’s school held an event last week where parents were invited for coffee and conversation with the school principal.  Some of the discussions were specific to the school, though many were more-universal topics: dress codes, athletics, standardized tests… for all of … Continue reading

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Who Blamed Roger Maris?

As a child, my great love was baseball. By the time, I entered 4th grade, in upstate Massachusetts, I had played one year of Little League and was usually  interested in watching the Red Sox on Channel 38, as long … Continue reading

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There Will Be Whitespace

I use to think of myself as a pretty good writer. I was a mass communications major and my courses in journalism, advertising and writing for broadcast, instilled habits of language clarity, brief sentences and abundant whitespace. These habits  were … Continue reading

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Content Fidelity

Years ago, a friend described his sister’s job hunt. He chuckled as he told me that she didn’t get any callbacks after distributing about 40 copies of her rÁ©sumÁ© and,  ”She said it’s my fault.” I asked, ”Why is that your fault?” … Continue reading

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