To me, this is just what I do. But I've had a lot of people just thank me, which is very rewarding.

That's what they call these people from California and Nevada. They bought a home in 1975 in Santa Monica for $110,000. It's now worth $800,000. They've paid it off. What they plan on doing is taking the money out and retiring.

There has always seemed something grim to me about Mary McCarthy's dogged insistence on remaining angry for 40 years,

There has always seemed something grim to me about Mary McCarthy's dogged insistence on remaining angry for 40 years.

If you choose great language and truthfully inspirational thinking you never have meaningfulness lives of those that you love ... but if there is no give there wont be any take!

Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.