Dear Jalen Hurts, I don’t know you personally and probably never will. But I’d like to thank you anyway for the valuable example you’ve been for me and for everyone else who’s been watching you and Alabama football over the last year. I’m sure it was really hard for you, an exceptional athlete, to sit [...]
My grandmother (Betty Jones) believed that every family—especially hers—should gather around the dinner table together, often. So, she put up homegrown vegetables all summer for our weekly family dinners. If she hadn’t, well, we might have had to settle for mere store-bought produce. She made homemade mayonnaise because the kind in the jar just wouldn’t do. [...]
“Did we meet? I don’t remember you at all.” Wrote the editor of a large publishing house in a curt (bordering on rude) email. We had met together just a weeks before but obviously, I failed to make a lasting impression. Ouch. He went on to say, “Your book proposal doesn’t meet our current editorial [...]