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Blogs and Videos on Ongoing Mastery Presenting and Training Skills.

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One of the great things about being your own boss, is the ability to feature the talents and skills of those around you. Kellie Donovan-Condron was both my co-host and producer during the five seasons of our Ongoing Mastery: Presenting and Speaking Podcast (on our YouTube channel). She is now the amazing author of our blogs below.

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The photo is the cover of Taylor Swift's 11th album, showing Swift in black and white with her arms covering her head. The title reads, "Poets & Apostrophes: Discover WhyTaylor Swift Is Right

Does Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, need an apostrophe? She’s started a national, if niche, review of punctuation use.

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Kellie Donovan-Condron April 25, 2024
A black man is wearing a brown turleneck sweater, tan pants, and a black brimmed hat. He stands at a microphone on a stage, left hand hold a stack of papers, right hand reached out to the audience. The title reads, "SLam: Powerful Poetry Meets Passionate Performance

If “poetry” only reminds you of elbow-patched jackets & speaking slowly, slam is an entirely different way to experience the power of language.

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Kellie Donovan-Condron April 18, 2024
The cover of Edward Gorey's book, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, showing a skeleton with a long black coat, top hat and scarf holding an umbrella over a group of young children. The title reads, "Playful Poems: A Riff on Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies"

It’s National Poetry Month, so I’m riffing on one of my favorite poems, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, a children’s alphabet book by Edward Gorey.

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Kellie Donovan-Condron April 11, 2024
An old-fashioned glasss inkwell with black ink, and a quill with a fountain pen nib. The title reads: "Poetry is Life Distilled: In Praise of National Poetry Month"

April is National Poetry Month in the U.S. Many see poems as fussy, elitist, and difficult. And yet, poetry is everywhere in American culture.

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Kellie Donovan-Condron April 4, 2024
A stack of books from the author's reading challenges. The title reads: Challenge Accepted: A Tale of 3 Reading Lists in 2024"

So far, 2024 has been full of challenge – book club reading challenges, that is. My to-be-read pile is taller than ever, and I couldn’t be happier.

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Kellie Donovan-Condron March 28, 2024
A cork board with a red push pin holding an index card. The index card says in red in "About Me". The title is, "10 Things I Hate About the About Me Slide: Check Your Deck"

This week’s post is inspired by the upcoming 25th anniversary of the fantastic teen comedy, 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), directed by Gil

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Kellie Donovan-Condron March 21, 2024