“Try, try again.” This is one of the earliest of the homilies I learned as a child. Even then I didn’t like it very much because I prefer to succeed…
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“I would have written you a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” I love this quote from Blaise Pascal, who was (as Encyclopaedia Britannica so eloquently puts…
If you say “can’t,” but you mean “won’t,” it’s not the same thing. If you say “everybody,” but you mean “some people I know,” that’s different too. The words matter.…
Twenty-five years ago, two sisters who got along reasonably well decided to give a name to their combined efforts at writing and publishing. The sisters discussed potential names off and…