Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

One can often trace the sources of a brand personality - here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element of the product. Of course, the personality is clearest and strongest when all the elements are consistent.

We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.