You don’t say: How has your life been spent?
I really like the Eighty Twenty Rule. I use it all the time to explain all manner of things for which I've never actually done any quantitative analysis, and with...
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You Don’t Say: When is enough, enough?
There are a lot of people in the world who haven't been as lucky as I have been. Truth be told, I've made enough poor choices in my life that...
You Don’t Say: I’m no stranger to violence
G. K. Chesterton said, “Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.” I’m pretty sure I understand what he was getting at, yet I find little...
You Don’t Say: The real appeal of history is more personal
As long as I can remember I’ve had a love affair with history. However, it seems to me that many people today are not very well informed on this subject,...
You don’t say: Things my father taught me
My mother was a single parent, strong-willed and intelligent, trying to make her way alone in a new country as a young woman with a child in tow — yours...
You don’t say: Maintaining friendships is tough!
I don’t come from, nor did I have, a large family of my own, but family and friendship have always been very important to me. Despite the occasional familial brouhaha,...
You don’t say: It’s total anarchy out there
You’d have to be living off the grid in a cave somewhere not to realize the world has changed in some basic and very dramatic ways since those “good old...
You Don’t Say: When will the Arts District take off?
This past Sunday morning found me hoofing it around Colonial Williamsburg's Merchant Square area at the Art of the Square show put on by The Junior Woman's Club of Williamsburg....