Podcast Friday: Skip the “Filigree”

In the second part of our delicious podcast with Jack Canfora, Jack uses a word that made me light up.  Sparks of recognition for having erred in a way he described.  Mistakes made from putting too fine a polish on an unworthy sentence or an entire, misguided paragraph.  Jack’s simple term which encompasses all of the (often) unnecessary and distracting flourish is FILIGREE. 

There could be NO better word to describe what Verlyn Klinkenborg addressed with his pin-point wisdom in one of my...