Author and Novelist Glynn Young
By Glynn Young In this fourth novel in the Dancing Priest series, Michael Kent-Hughes confronts a collapsing, scandal-wracked church and a collapsing city government. A trusted advisor finally confronts his own troubled past. Three teenagers ignite a reformation. And Sarah Kent-Hughes finds her long-disappeared mother and ministers to a dying soldier.
For a long time, I had what several of colleagues called the most interesting office at work. Because I was a speechwriter, I was expected to (a) read everything the CEO did, (b) read a lot of business books, particularly popular ones, (c) study books about speechwriting, and (d) read books on …
[Read More...] about Poetry at Work, Chapter 19: The Poetry of Workplace Restoration
I was an early reader. I don’t recall how early, but I do remember riding my red bicycle to the dime store when I was six, to spend 59 cents to buy Trixie Belden and the Secret of the Mansion. It was the first of many such trips, for more Trixie Belden mysteries, Robinson …
Think back 25 years (if you’re old enough). It sounds almost quaint today, but email was just beginning to come into its own. At the company where I was working, with more than 40,000 people, some 5,000 had been brought into the email system. Eventually, all would be, but 5,000 was enough to give us …
[Read More...] about Poetry at Work, Chapter 18: The Poetry of Electronic Work
Layoffs were coming. The big announcement from the CEO was circulated by email. It was a masterpiece of vagueness. It didn’t say how many people would be affected. It didn’t say when the affected people would know. It did say there would be a severance program, although it included no …
[Read More...] about Poetry at Work, Chapter 17: The Poet Blogs the Layoff
It happens to most of us, at one time or another in our careers. You’re called into the boss’s office and discover there’s an HR person waiting as well. Yep, you’re being laid off. Sometimes you’re expecting it; sometimes you’re not. In my case, I knew it was coming. A work colleague had found …
[Read More...] about Poetry at Work, Chapter 16: The Poetry of Unemployment
An award-winning speechwriter and communications professional, Glynn Young is the author of three novels and the non-fiction book Poetry at Work.
