I read a page here and there, and made acquaintance with a great many authors whom I was content to know thus desultorily.

Science now supports a cognitive appraisal model for understanding why some athletes can take everything in stride while others release the kraken.

rather eat raw tofurky than wear cotton pullovers with little thingies on them—polo guys, sailboats, whatever that Tommy Hilfiger logo is supposed to be.

Out in the front yard, a jumble of iris japonica, Chinese epimedium and carex leaves covers one wall, a plant wall experiment begun five years ago.