When I heard about Humpty Dumpty I wondered did he fall or was he pushed? ~ P.D. James It’s a fair question, as we’ll see in a few paragraphs. But before we get to the Stephen King block, here’s a traditional rhyme that’s one of my favorites. Content in brackets provides contemporary adjectives to replace those […]
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. ~ George Eliot, Middlemarch It has been my experience that when a friend tells me a story, I tend to adopt her–or his–perspective. Whoever was the “bad” guy in the story continues to be the villain in my mind, too.
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Caramelization is the sweet dance of sugar under heat, transforming from crystalline to a rich, golden elixir, a testament to the delicate balance between time and temperature. ~Unknown I’ve never made caramel candy myself, but I do confess that I love caramel far more than the ubiquitous chocolate. As I was treating myself to a
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Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don’t even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges. ~Annie Lennox I’m not sure what Ms. Lennox meant by “essential to our every waking moment,” but she is absolutely correct that we don’t know much
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Overthinking is the art of creating problems that weren’t even there. ~Anonymous That was certainly not the case in my high school English class. Not for me; not one of my teachers ever accused me of overthinking anything. That, and I was always dead last when it came to figuring out the hidden meanings in
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