I recognize that a name like Rachel goes against my whole ordering a different dish from everyone else at the table rule, but sometimes you really want a steak, and that's exactly what you should get. I love the name we gave our daughter. It's not dorky, not too whimsical, and not too stuck-up. To us it sounded sweet, sporty, smart, and beautiful. It also works well with Sachs.

Forget what I hae been yelpin about politics, but dinna forget to hand up your wee finger on Sunday at the window to the first pair o' white hose ye see, when you want a shave, and gathering up his various implements of trade, and offering me, as usual, a vale, Domine, off flew Ritchie Falconer to adonize and amuse some other customer.

He came to whisper Wolsey.

The boom-boom bass out in the truck bay wasn't quite loud enough to drown out the whoops and the hollers of the ladies.