Why Bother?

“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford Some days

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Yakety Yak

“James Blish told me I had the worst case of ‘said bookism’ (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to

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Long ago . . .

. . . when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it’s called golf. The memoir I’m writing about my father’s last year is

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