Payin' Attention

Two angels suddenly appeared in a bar and, after getting their bearings, sat down in a booth by the far corner.
“Actually Sal, we were hoping you could tell us the true meaning of Christmas. You know, from a mortal perspective.”
“Whoa! Didn’t see that one coming!” said Sal. “Why me?”
“Well, we were in the neighborhood on a training mission for Mara when we got word that the Lord-God-Omnipotent-Who-Reigneth wanted to know how the team was doing regarding getting the Word out. And I thought of you.”

When I was teaching software applications, operating systems, development, whatever, I could walk around a classroom of 20 students and from roughly five feet away from a monitor tell a student if they were missing a comma, a semi-colon or period in their programming code.

As a writer, I seldom use spell check because I’m a pretty good speller and typos literally jump off a page at me.

I would hope that every human being at some point has asked the question, “why am I here”, so let me tell you why I’m here. I’m here for answers … Care to join me?

Hypothetically speaking (of course), let’s say you wanted to hire a technical writer to update websites, user guides, release notes, online help and generate PDF documents. Then one of your responses brings this (terrific) experience to the table … He sends you links to his blog and the websites he’s created so you can see samples of his website work and writing samples. His cover letter … makes it seem like God Almighty sent him to you. Have you died and gone to heaven or what?!