If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to bed hungry while I was on earth and read aloud a list of my eBay purchases. I shudder to think of it. Explaining to a poor child with a swollen belly why I didn't give his village fifty cents a week but spent twenty-seven dollars in a bidding war for a Mars Attacks coffee cup.
Dana GouldScatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description.
Dana GouldWhoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones.
Dana Gould