The very word "reform" usually employed in this connection suggests a violent breaking and remaking to another set pattern imposed by the reformer, the antithesis of the process of inner growth and self-development which I have tried to delineate in these pages. To the problem-drinker these ...
I haven’t had any alcohol for over a week either. The shocking truth of my new life lays bare before you dear reader. It’s been two weeks. I’m here for six months. What, I wonder, will emerge after all that time?! At the rate I’m eating large plates of carbohydrates, I’m...
I make my living as a copyeditor, always following different clients’ style sheets, and I find it strange where people decide to draw the line: no commas after hey when used as a greeting, healthcare as one word, and the weirdest, Jay-Z turning to Jay Z. He was done with hyphens....