Tag: Work

No rust for the weary

If you rest, you rust. American actress, Helen Hayes, was born on this day in 1900 (died 1993).   Helen Hayes certainly didn’t know the meaning of the word rest. Or at least not of slowing down. One of 12 (at this count) people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a …

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Word Play

  Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. American humorist and journalist, Roy Blount, Jr., was born on this day in 1941. That’s the thing about writers. We like seeing how words fit together. Sometimes we force them to work together even when they don’t want to. And, if …

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