So I’m sitting here, typing away and watching the coffeeheads, as I’m prone to do – when this guy starts whipping the manager about the grind of his beans, one notch above espresso, not too fine, I use a conical filter, blah blah blah… fine, I get that.
Then he asks for a [...]
One is open re: its (mis)representation of fact, the other isn’t.
I will never know the feeling of labor and childbirth. Mind you, I’m not bemoaning that particular white space on my life experience checklist. However, a writer, regardless of sex or the numbers of child-shaped “trophies on the shelf” he/she might possess, understands the metaphor for labor when it comes to crafting a story.
Today, [...]