• About This Site
    • Essay 01: There Are No Strangers
    • Essay 02: Wheels of Fortune (1998)
    • Essay 03: Take My Hand (1999)
    • Essay 04: Mission From Heaven (1999)
    • Essay 06: German Chocolate (1999)
    • Essay 11: A Message for Alouette (2000)
    • Essay 20: Sitting in Judgment (2000)
    • Essay 23: A Candle in the Night (2001)
    • Essay 25: Sad Hair Day (2001)
    • Essay 26: Frame 24, Take 2 (2001)
    • Essay 27: Katie’s Light (2001)
    • Essay 29: Land of Plenty (2001)
    • Essay 31: Make My Day (2002)
    • Essay 32: Missing the Boat (2002)
    • Essay 37: Rail Ties (2003)
    • Essay 05: Four Cats (1999)
    • Essay 08: Over Thirty, Male, and Immature (1991)
    • Essay 09: Hand-Me-Down Love (2000)
    • Essay 14: "Does Person 1 Drive Person 2 Nuts?" (2000)
    • Essay 15: “I Do”—But Not to You (2000)
    • Essay 18: Growing Into High Gear (2000)
    • Essay 21: A Safe Bet (2000)
    • Essay 33: Next! (2002)
    • Essay 34: Tall Tales (2002)
    • Essay 07: The Decisive Moment (1999)
    • Essay 12: Saving Becky Thatcher (2000)
    • Essay 16: Not to Be Believed (2000)
    • Essay 17: The Bigger Picture (2000)
    • Essay 19: Dissonant Divide (2000)
    • Essay 22: “You’d Have to Be an Idiot,” He Said (2000)
    • Essay 28: Our Brother’s Keeper (2001)
    • Essay 30: Lunch With Davey (2002)
    • Essay 35: Final Breath (2002)
    • Father-of-the-Bride Speech (2018)
    • Eulogy for My Father (1998)
    • Eulogy for My Mother (2013)
    • Eulogy for My Aunt Sarah (2002)
    • Tribute to a Girls' Basketball Coach (2000)
    • Tribute to a School Music Teacher (2002)
    • (2022-06) Hey, Writer: Your LinkedIn Profile Needs More than Phrases.
    • (2022-08) To Make Your Writing Stronger, Use the Passive Voice. Seriously.
    • (2022-09) A Microsoft Word Template Can Be a Godsend or a Scourge. Which is Yours?
    • (2022-10) When Your "Editor" Can't Edit, What Should You Do?
    • (2022-11) When “Correct” Writing Looks Wrong, What’s a Writer to Do?
    • (2022-12) In Thoughtful Writing, Chasing Consistency is a Fool's Errand
    • (2023-01) Writer? Designer? When You Hire a Twofer, Expect a Halfer.
    • (2023-02) Who Gets to Decide Whether Wording is Ambiguous?
    • (2023-03) When Word Must Persuade, a "One-Voice" Edit is Never Enough
    • (2023-10) An Interview with Technical Writer Paul Stregevsky
    • (2023-12) If You Write at Work, Stop Playing It Safe
    • (2024-01) A Little Redundancy Can Be a Useful Thing
    • 2024-02) Even Real Writers Make These Five Mistakes
    • (2024-03) So You're "Expert in Word"? Prove It.
    • (2024-05) Wordsmithing Today Takes Cutting-Edge Instincts. Do Boomers Have the Chops?
    • (2025-05) I’m Retiring Today—A Look at 47 Years of Salaried Wordsmithing, and What Comes Next
    • (2025-06) I've Just Fired My Editors. I Miss Them Already.
    • (2025-06) Writing Humanly Is a Valuable Skill. If You’ve Got It, Show It on LinkedIn and at Work.
    • (2025-06) The English Language Is My Stock-in-Trade. But I Detest It.
    • Closing the Open Mind (1977)
    • Forever a Freshman (1978)
    • Alouette at Eighteen (1978)
    • Song 02: Life On the Fringe
    • Song 03: Hineni (Here I Am)
    • Song 04: Marriage Is Work
    • Song 05: Eight Weeks
    • Song 06: The Rebbe Says
    • That's What We Do
    • With Friends Like These (live performance)
    • With Friends Like These (sample)
    • Rather Like You (live performance)
    • Third Car, Seventh Row (live performance)
    • (1989) Upstate Girl
    • (1990) Beginner Man
    • (1991) On BJ
    • (1992) Lashon Hora PTA
    • (1993) Agudah Girls
    • (1993) An Orthodox Man
    • (1993) Bruria
    • (1993) My Wife
    • (1993) Only the Frumm Die Young
    • (1975) Calculator, Calculator
    • (1975) Empirical, Empirical
    • (1975) Math Major, Math Major
    • (1985) If I Only Were Retired
    • (1988) The Way I Always Knew It Would Be
    • (1990) She's Always a Winner to Me
    • (1992) My Girlfriend's Black
    • (2000) Hey, Dude
    • (2009) Jin of Displayblog
    • (2009) You're American
    • (2010) I Got Twaddle
    • (1982) When I Was a Young'n
    • (2000) Emperor of D&T
    • (2006) Sovereign of S&T
    • (2007) PlayStation Generation
    • (2008) Science Under Secretary
    • (2008) Old Man Winters
    • (2009) Everyone Knows It's Wendy
    • (2009) Science Town
    • (2011) Tam
    • (2012) Mama Ramayama
    • (2013) Accessible
    • (2015) Optum Girl
    • (2017) Everyone Knows It's Shelley
    • (2019) The OptuMotion
  • “Dear Bob”: My Mother’s 1944-1946 Letters to an RAF Serviceman

Writings of Paul Franklin Stregevsky Writings of Paul Franklin Stregevsky

  • About This Site
  • Personal Essays: Encounters With Strangers
    • Essay 01: There Are No Strangers
    • Essay 02: Wheels of Fortune (1998)
    • Essay 03: Take My Hand (1999)
    • Essay 04: Mission From Heaven (1999)
    • Essay 06: German Chocolate (1999)
    • Essay 11: A Message for Alouette (2000)
    • Essay 20: Sitting in Judgment (2000)
    • Essay 23: A Candle in the Night (2001)
    • Essay 25: Sad Hair Day (2001)
    • Essay 26: Frame 24, Take 2 (2001)
    • Essay 27: Katie’s Light (2001)
    • Essay 29: Land of Plenty (2001)
    • Essay 31: Make My Day (2002)
    • Essay 32: Missing the Boat (2002)
    • Essay 37: Rail Ties (2003)
  • Personal Essays: Relationships
    • Essay 05: Four Cats (1999)
    • Essay 08: Over Thirty, Male, and Immature (1991)
    • Essay 09: Hand-Me-Down Love (2000)
    • Essay 14: "Does Person 1 Drive Person 2 Nuts?" (2000)
    • Essay 15: “I Do”—But Not to You (2000)
    • Essay 18: Growing Into High Gear (2000)
    • Essay 21: A Safe Bet (2000)
    • Essay 33: Next! (2002)
    • Essay 34: Tall Tales (2002)
  • Personal Essays: Ethics, Morals, and Values
    • Essay 07: The Decisive Moment (1999)
    • Essay 12: Saving Becky Thatcher (2000)
    • Essay 16: Not to Be Believed (2000)
    • Essay 17: The Bigger Picture (2000)
    • Essay 19: Dissonant Divide (2000)
    • Essay 22: “You’d Have to Be an Idiot,” He Said (2000)
    • Essay 28: Our Brother’s Keeper (2001)
    • Essay 30: Lunch With Davey (2002)
    • Essay 35: Final Breath (2002)
  • Eulogies and Tributes
    • Father-of-the-Bride Speech (2018)
    • Eulogy for My Father (1998)
    • Eulogy for My Mother (2013)
    • Eulogy for My Aunt Sarah (2002)
    • Tribute to a Girls' Basketball Coach (2000)
    • Tribute to a School Music Teacher (2002)
  • Articles About Writing
    • (2022-06) Hey, Writer: Your LinkedIn Profile Needs More than Phrases.
    • (2022-08) To Make Your Writing Stronger, Use the Passive Voice. Seriously.
    • (2022-09) A Microsoft Word Template Can Be a Godsend or a Scourge. Which is Yours?
    • (2022-10) When Your "Editor" Can't Edit, What Should You Do?
    • (2022-11) When “Correct” Writing Looks Wrong, What’s a Writer to Do?
    • (2022-12) In Thoughtful Writing, Chasing Consistency is a Fool's Errand
    • (2023-01) Writer? Designer? When You Hire a Twofer, Expect a Halfer.
    • (2023-02) Who Gets to Decide Whether Wording is Ambiguous?
    • (2023-03) When Word Must Persuade, a "One-Voice" Edit is Never Enough
    • (2023-10) An Interview with Technical Writer Paul Stregevsky
    • (2023-12) If You Write at Work, Stop Playing It Safe
    • (2024-01) A Little Redundancy Can Be a Useful Thing
    • 2024-02) Even Real Writers Make These Five Mistakes
    • (2024-03) So You're "Expert in Word"? Prove It.
    • (2024-05) Wordsmithing Today Takes Cutting-Edge Instincts. Do Boomers Have the Chops?
    • (2025-05) I’m Retiring Today—A Look at 47 Years of Salaried Wordsmithing, and What Comes Next
    • (2025-06) I've Just Fired My Editors. I Miss Them Already.
    • (2025-06) Writing Humanly Is a Valuable Skill. If You’ve Got It, Show It on LinkedIn and at Work.
    • (2025-06) The English Language Is My Stock-in-Trade. But I Detest It.
  • Poems
    • Closing the Open Mind (1977)
    • Forever a Freshman (1978)
    • Alouette at Eighteen (1978)
  • Songs from Marriage at Work
    • Song 02: Life On the Fringe
    • Song 03: Hineni (Here I Am)
    • Song 04: Marriage Is Work
    • Song 05: Eight Weeks
    • Song 06: The Rebbe Says
  • Songs from Tracks the Musical
    • That's What We Do
    • With Friends Like These (live performance)
    • With Friends Like These (sample)
    • Rather Like You (live performance)
    • Third Car, Seventh Row (live performance)
  • Songs (Parody), Jewish
    • (1989) Upstate Girl
    • (1990) Beginner Man
    • (1991) On BJ
    • (1992) Lashon Hora PTA
    • (1993) Agudah Girls
    • (1993) An Orthodox Man
    • (1993) Bruria
    • (1993) My Wife
    • (1993) Only the Frumm Die Young
  • Songs (Parody), Personal
    • (1975) Calculator, Calculator
    • (1975) Empirical, Empirical
    • (1975) Math Major, Math Major
    • (1985) If I Only Were Retired
    • (1988) The Way I Always Knew It Would Be
    • (1990) She's Always a Winner to Me
    • (1992) My Girlfriend's Black
    • (2000) Hey, Dude
    • (2009) Jin of Displayblog
    • (2009) You're American
    • (2010) I Got Twaddle
  • Songs (Parody), Workplace
    • (1982) When I Was a Young'n
    • (2000) Emperor of D&T
    • (2006) Sovereign of S&T
    • (2007) PlayStation Generation
    • (2008) Science Under Secretary
    • (2008) Old Man Winters
    • (2009) Everyone Knows It's Wendy
    • (2009) Science Town
    • (2011) Tam
    • (2012) Mama Ramayama
    • (2013) Accessible
    • (2015) Optum Girl
    • (2017) Everyone Knows It's Shelley
    • (2019) The OptuMotion
  • “Dear Bob”: My Mother’s 1944-1946 Letters to an RAF Serviceman
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Writings of Paul Franklin Stregevsky Writings of Paul Franklin Stregevsky

Technical Writer, Science Writer, Essayist, Lyricist, Playwright

The professional and personal writings of Paul Franklin Stregevsky, with a side helping of videos and photographs.

  • About This Site
    • Essay 01: There Are No Strangers
    • Essay 02: Wheels of Fortune (1998)
    • Essay 03: Take My Hand (1999)
    • Essay 04: Mission From Heaven (1999)
    • Essay 06: German Chocolate (1999)
    • Essay 11: A Message for Alouette (2000)
    • Essay 20: Sitting in Judgment (2000)
    • Essay 23: A Candle in the Night (2001)
    • Essay 25: Sad Hair Day (2001)
    • Essay 26: Frame 24, Take 2 (2001)
    • Essay 27: Katie’s Light (2001)
    • Essay 29: Land of Plenty (2001)
    • Essay 31: Make My Day (2002)
    • Essay 32: Missing the Boat (2002)
    • Essay 37: Rail Ties (2003)
    • Essay 05: Four Cats (1999)
    • Essay 08: Over Thirty, Male, and Immature (1991)
    • Essay 09: Hand-Me-Down Love (2000)
    • Essay 14: "Does Person 1 Drive Person 2 Nuts?" (2000)
    • Essay 15: “I Do”—But Not to You (2000)
    • Essay 18: Growing Into High Gear (2000)
    • Essay 21: A Safe Bet (2000)
    • Essay 33: Next! (2002)
    • Essay 34: Tall Tales (2002)
    • Essay 07: The Decisive Moment (1999)
    • Essay 12: Saving Becky Thatcher (2000)
    • Essay 16: Not to Be Believed (2000)
    • Essay 17: The Bigger Picture (2000)
    • Essay 19: Dissonant Divide (2000)
    • Essay 22: “You’d Have to Be an Idiot,” He Said (2000)
    • Essay 28: Our Brother’s Keeper (2001)
    • Essay 30: Lunch With Davey (2002)
    • Essay 35: Final Breath (2002)
    • Father-of-the-Bride Speech (2018)
    • Eulogy for My Father (1998)
    • Eulogy for My Mother (2013)
    • Eulogy for My Aunt Sarah (2002)
    • Tribute to a Girls' Basketball Coach (2000)
    • Tribute to a School Music Teacher (2002)
    • (2022-06) Hey, Writer: Your LinkedIn Profile Needs More than Phrases.
    • (2022-08) To Make Your Writing Stronger, Use the Passive Voice. Seriously.
    • (2022-09) A Microsoft Word Template Can Be a Godsend or a Scourge. Which is Yours?
    • (2022-10) When Your "Editor" Can't Edit, What Should You Do?
    • (2022-11) When “Correct” Writing Looks Wrong, What’s a Writer to Do?
    • (2022-12) In Thoughtful Writing, Chasing Consistency is a Fool's Errand
    • (2023-01) Writer? Designer? When You Hire a Twofer, Expect a Halfer.
    • (2023-02) Who Gets to Decide Whether Wording is Ambiguous?
    • (2023-03) When Word Must Persuade, a "One-Voice" Edit is Never Enough
    • (2023-10) An Interview with Technical Writer Paul Stregevsky
    • (2023-12) If You Write at Work, Stop Playing It Safe
    • (2024-01) A Little Redundancy Can Be a Useful Thing
    • 2024-02) Even Real Writers Make These Five Mistakes
    • (2024-03) So You're "Expert in Word"? Prove It.
    • (2024-05) Wordsmithing Today Takes Cutting-Edge Instincts. Do Boomers Have the Chops?
    • (2025-05) I’m Retiring Today—A Look at 47 Years of Salaried Wordsmithing, and What Comes Next
    • (2025-06) I've Just Fired My Editors. I Miss Them Already.
    • (2025-06) Writing Humanly Is a Valuable Skill. If You’ve Got It, Show It on LinkedIn and at Work.
    • (2025-06) The English Language Is My Stock-in-Trade. But I Detest It.
    • Closing the Open Mind (1977)
    • Forever a Freshman (1978)
    • Alouette at Eighteen (1978)
    • Song 02: Life On the Fringe
    • Song 03: Hineni (Here I Am)
    • Song 04: Marriage Is Work
    • Song 05: Eight Weeks
    • Song 06: The Rebbe Says
    • That's What We Do
    • With Friends Like These (live performance)
    • With Friends Like These (sample)
    • Rather Like You (live performance)
    • Third Car, Seventh Row (live performance)
    • (1989) Upstate Girl
    • (1990) Beginner Man
    • (1991) On BJ
    • (1992) Lashon Hora PTA
    • (1993) Agudah Girls
    • (1993) An Orthodox Man
    • (1993) Bruria
    • (1993) My Wife
    • (1993) Only the Frumm Die Young
    • (1975) Calculator, Calculator
    • (1975) Empirical, Empirical
    • (1975) Math Major, Math Major
    • (1985) If I Only Were Retired
    • (1988) The Way I Always Knew It Would Be
    • (1990) She's Always a Winner to Me
    • (1992) My Girlfriend's Black
    • (2000) Hey, Dude
    • (2009) Jin of Displayblog
    • (2009) You're American
    • (2010) I Got Twaddle
    • (1982) When I Was a Young'n
    • (2000) Emperor of D&T
    • (2006) Sovereign of S&T
    • (2007) PlayStation Generation
    • (2008) Science Under Secretary
    • (2008) Old Man Winters
    • (2009) Everyone Knows It's Wendy
    • (2009) Science Town
    • (2011) Tam
    • (2012) Mama Ramayama
    • (2013) Accessible
    • (2015) Optum Girl
    • (2017) Everyone Knows It's Shelley
    • (2019) The OptuMotion
  • “Dear Bob”: My Mother’s 1944-1946 Letters to an RAF Serviceman
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