Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.
It's not nice going into the supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking: 'Dodgy keeper'.
Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.
Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.
Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.