Twenty corny puns to brighten your day. Don’t blame me if you groan. To whomever stole my copy of Microsoft Office, I will find you. You have my Word! How do you catch a whole school of fish? With bookworms. What’s the difference between the bird flu and the swine flu? One requires tweetment and the other an oinkment. Why can’t your nose be 12-inches long? Because it would be a foot. What …

Every day I learn something new. Today’s 3-minute video talks about strange concrete arrows in the ground in remote places throughout Utah. Who knew? So, you are all creative people. What metaphor does this make you think of for writers?Or what about the stories of the workers who built them? Is there something fun you could create from that?

Today’s video left me in awe. Hiromi Uehara takes a familiar melody, Pachabel’s “Canon in D,” but turns it into something breathtaking. It may seem a little strange sounding for the first couple of minutes, but stay with it! You’ll be glad you did. If you can read music, the transcription score of her performance runs throughout the bottom of the video. Dare you try …

Buddy Greene proves that with enough practice you can play at Carnegie Hall! Sheer brilliance on an unappreciated instrument. It’s great that Bill Gaither showpieced this virtuoso. Hope it inspires you! (If you cannot see the embedded video in your newsletter email, please click the headline and go directly to our site to view it.)

Today’s video is a clever way to illustrate a charitable need. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays Vivaldi’s “Spring” but with one-third of the notes missing, thereby showing that 1/3 of all Cancer Research UK’s funding came from gifts. Very clever. It also illustrates something else. When your manuscript seems to be missing something, this video is what the words …