As a writer, I’ve always adhered to Joan Didion’s practice when it came to punctuation, sentence structure, and the like: “Grammar is a piano I play by ear.” However, as a former English teacher, I believe grammar needs to be a logical practice that you can explain it...
It is a terror to wake up in the night to see the face you love more than any other leering demonically. The image stains your memory like the Shroud of Turin, and it doesn’t fade. By now, Samie’s eyes—those beautiful, summer-blue eyes—had turned to moons of white and...
David Brooks’s The Social Animal is a book about how we become who we are, both consciously and unconsciously. It’s about how we grow up, how our relationships influence us, how we make decisions and how much control those decision have over our lives, how we learn,...
So, what is the e myth? It is the basic myth of all small business, the “entrepreneurial myth.” It usually starts with something along the lines of, “Why am I working for this guy? . . . I know as much about this business as he does. If it...
It’s hard to read about Donald Miller’s life—through his memoirs, that is—and not come out a more thoughtful person on the other side. It was true for his first book, Blue Like Jazz, and it his true for one of his latest: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I...
Is the secret to accomplishing more doing less? Greg McKeown believes that it is. In fact, he believes it so much that he wrote Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less to prove it—and the book makes his point pretty well. The premise of Essentialism is...
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