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  • CAN WE TALK? (about pet peeves)

    CAN WE TALK? (about pet peeves)

    You know that book: “Eats Shoots and Leaves” (by Lynne Truss)? I used to think it was about some kind of mammal, maybe a panda, that eats shoots and leaves. Then I put on my glasses and noticed the comma: “Eats, Shoots and Leaves.” Now that implies that someone eats, then shoots, then leaves… Entirely…

  • Peeves, Yeats, Hurdles, Goldilocks, importance of full stops

    Peeves, Yeats, Hurdles, Goldilocks, importance of full stops

    I function “best” when I’m in the Goldilocks zone. That is to say, when it’s not ‘too’ this, and it’s not ‘too’ that. When everything is going along just right in the world in a nice practiced routine. But who doesn’t function best like that, right? But take for instance a family member I once…