Premise: If a story, then a storyteller.
Premise: A story.
Conclusion: A storyteller.
Premise: If a story, then a storyteller.
Premise: A story.
Conclusion: A storyteller.
Chapter Nine of Peace Like a River — the best novel of the first quarter century of the millennia and yes, I know there are
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Silence is the real. Words lie on top. + To be alone with the Alone He drapes himself in silence Art, too, is the fruit
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Relent is not Repent. Relent is … Oh, OK … yeah. I shouldn’t. Repent is … not that.
The porch steps were slick with rain this morning, and I realized I knew people whose first reaction to someone slipping on them would not
If Tim Tebow never plays another down as an NFL Quarterback it won’t be because he can’t. It will be because they say he can’t.
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They say of Jim Brown — When he got to the end zone he acted like he’d been there before. They don’t say this of
This is part two of a two-part post on why, some 45 years later, Columbo still matters. Part one is here. This essay is excerpted