I didn’t really want to post a blog last week given how it ended. I’m not really sure I should post today either. But I was thinking this morning about this post I had written a couple of years ago about “othering” and how much damage it can do when writers, leaders, or anyone with…
A recent editorial by Ruth McCambridge at Nonprofit Quarterly really resonated with me. In it she laments the standard practice of many nonprofit executives who use “othering” language when talking about their clients. She says this practice is “a regressive blast from the past, full of words and phrases that are coded shortcuts to narratives…
Did you know you could be whelmed? Not overwhelmed or underwhelmed, just whelmed? I had no idea. But Merriam-Webster tells us that contemporary writers use the word to indicate that middle stage between under and over. I guess it’s more of a convention than an actual rule. Why am I bringing this up? I was…
