#sam clair

"...or I'll start correcting the apostrophes on their blackboard menu." It's my version of community service, providing a good spelling environment for all, but some people just don't appreciate it.

I don't like being told what to do, and I dislike it even more when the teller is right and I'm wrong.

There's only so much sociability a person can take in any twenty-four-hour period.

I don't know why someone wanting me dead because they were afraid of me was better than someone wanting me dead because they hated me, but it was.

Books are magic. A book works if it means something to the reader. It doesn’t matter if what it means to the reader isn't what the author intended, or even if it directly contradicts what the author intended. If it speaks to the reader, then it works; if it doesn't, it's dead.

Asking direct questions in middle-class, professional England gets you deported, probably to the colonies, where they don't know any better.

A problem delayed is a problem, well, delayed so I can worry about it some more. Lip-gnawing anxiety is my major skill set. Everyone's got to be good at something.