For anyone who writes anything - and wants to pack a punch doing it, Spunk and Bite is the trusty reference companion. Whether writing books, articles, reports, memos, captions, Blogs, social media posts, or even letters - following the advice in Spunk and Bite is...

One year ago this month, August 2019, we mourned the loss of Carl Bell, MD. In our News posts of August 17th, (HE CAME, HE SAW, HE CARED) and August 25th, (COMMITTED TO CONTINUE HIS LEGACY) we acknowledged our debt to Dr. Bell’s inspirational life and pioneering...

By sheer number of uninterrupted years in print - decades, in fact - this book is a “long distance runner.” Why? It has been, and continues to be a strong support for millions of people struggling to overcome the destructive force of alcoholism in their lives. Twelve...

It is heartbreaking to recently have lost Congressman John Lewis - a great man, a great American, a great hero in the Civil Rights Movement. It is equally heartbreaking to ponder the unfathomable injustices, pains and cruelties he had to suffer right from the start of...

This iconic question is still being asked. An iconic book - How to Win Friends and Influence People - still proposes some answers. This book was one of only nine books recommended as “Iconic Reads,” a few years ago, in a magazine honoring the Top 100 Executives in...

Lifetimes is a book whose subtitle says it all: “The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children.” The beauty of this book is threefold. First, the physical book itself is beautiful, with its large, page size illustrations incorporating “gorgeous wording.” Second, the...

Race matters. Now more than ever. We have recently been traumatized and roused to riots and protests by the horrific death of George Floyd. A police officer, callously ignoring pleas of “I can’t breathe,” kept his knee jammed on the dying man’s neck for over eight...

Bishop T.D. Jakes was named “America’s Best Preacher” by Time Magazine. His many New York Times Bestsellers show the depth, range, authenticity and moral authority of his knowledge, as well as his extraordinary power to connect with and deeply impact others. Through...

The chorus of the above-cited song - by lyricist Johnny Mercer and composer Richard Whiting - might fittingly be played as background to reading this glorious book, One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez. While...

Science reads like a thriller when the subject is “the life of” the world’s most famous equation, and the author is David Bodanis. Each of the five symbols in “E=mc2” merits its own chapter. Why? Because the stories behind each symbol are dramatic. The dramas are...

As if the unprecedented challenges of parents and caregivers confined to staying at home with small children for long periods of time during the pandemic are not enough, some families must bear the burden of an additional hardship - one of the parents is incarcerated....