User:Wordhewer

Wordhewer (Steve White) on Wikipedia

Steve White is a professional journalist — reporter, editor, writer, ghostwriter, communications specialist, and consultant. He resides in Toronto, the third-largest city in North America, after New York and Los Angeles (and excluding the massive Mexico City, which beats all the above!)

He is a lover of words, English, foreign languages, linguistics, and beautiful writing and quotations. He is also a musician (singer, guitarist, intermediate pianist — self taught since 2014!) and a music lover (almost any genre, if done well — not yet hooked on polka...).

He is the author of four books and more than 2000 news articles, most recently for The Toronto Star (circulation ~ 800,000). He also produced for five years a 32-page colour magazine for a very large organization, with one colleague, in turns, each working solo (writing, editing, photography, and vetting of French translation).

Steve (known to certain friends simply as 'Word') has an unusual rapport with wild animals, pets, infants, toddlers, the aged, the autistic, the needy, and the psychologically or emotionally damaged. Because of his intense interest in communication, his life has been partly an ongoing experiment in communicating with the hard-to-communicate-with.

Steve is not entirely comfortable laundry-listing his positive attributes, and would be just as willing to share with you his faults and shortcomings, too, on a basis of trust.

He's a computer and gadget freak, too.

He's often heard to say, "I love this century!" for several reasons:

1. Cool-as-hell technology;
2. a marked reduction in the public acceptance of racism, misogyny, homophobia, and a slew of other things antithetical to human beings;
3. young people — kids, teenagers, and young adults — rock, these days. It's perhaps the first time older people have been willing to say that in thousands of years!
4. Older and just-plain-old people rock, these days, too. A whole lot of them embrace technology and could teach you a thing or two. They're less hung-up, judgmental, and ossified, on the whole, then in previous generations. More and more, young and old overlook age differences (just like the differences mentioned above) and treat one another like fellow human beings, often sharing similar tastes and attitudes.

He is at home at www.facebook.com/Wordhewer, and at the site for the business he operates — Wordsmith Editorial Services — www.facebook.com/Wordsmith.Worldwide.