But, as the couple walked out of the door,cradling the instrument as if it would shatter if anyone breathed on it, we looked at each other in disbelief. Both of us smiled as the lesson of the non-musician luthier hit home. It can’t be done! Stick with what you know! Really? Did...
Two days ago, when Pat came up to buy a VB, he asked what my last name was and walked away. The next time he asked where I lived. I said the street. He asked who I lived with. I said my girlfriend and best friend. Then, with the honesty trigger which continues to get me int...
The boy walked along the sea shore, bending down again and again to pick up something and throw it into the water. The jaded businessman, walking along the beach behind him, finally caught up with the boy and asked him what he was doing. Opening his arms up wide to indicate the strand...
"It would have taken me four months to get 50 shots on any of the teams I played for," Horace Grant said. "And that motherfucker took 50 in one night." Kobe had hugged all of them before he walked off the court. All these men he'd won championships with, pissed of...
Sure, there’s some good stuff which may be played later on, but you get there by mastering the basics. One would think that moment of clarity would be enough to last me throughout the day.One would be wrong. I walked into the house tonight and, even before sitting down to supper, ...
He walked into my music store today. The handy little cataloging system at work in my brain went into alarm mode instantly. “It’s him!” I felt like I was in one of those cartoons. You know. The cartoons where the character has an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other....
Always felt bad about the teenagers who had really bad acne. I still get zits all the time but I’ve never had a full, beard-like breakout. I attribute my great skin to genetics and never washing my face. I still wash my face so rarely that whenever I do splash some water on it ...
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So, taxis being unfindable, they walked together through the warm London night to Victoria Street. It was then that he spoke of his work, the novel just completed. Of all opinions on earth, hers was the one he most valued. If only he could read it to her and have the priceless bene...