Mrs. Miller doesn't read the entire newspaper. "Some people put in things that don't interest me, like who is going…
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If you are a gentleman, never lower the intellectual standard of your conversation in addressing ladies. Pay them the compliment…
My 11yo, of the opening chapters of a YA novel with an orphan heroine: "That's a rip-off of Annie, Oliver,…
A typographic engineer, Connare was working at Microsoft in 1993, when he was asked for his input on a new…
Draft: "As my classmates tormented, I shrank into my turtle-like shell." Suggestion: "The school mocked; I turtled." (Yes, I am…
RT @avantgame: So, to conclude: SuperBetter works, clinical evidence, the company has disbanded, I don't own the IP, if someone…
Even after the proliferation of print, the humble pen continued to flourish. History owes a lot to the literates who,…
A newsworthy story is recent (rather than stale), rare (rather than common), affects many (rather than few) people, has weighty…