... my last work is no sooner on the stands than letters come, suggesting a subject. The grandmothers of strangers are crying from... the grave, it seems, for literary recognition; it is bewildering, the number of salty grandfathers, aunts and uncles that languish unappreciated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hearing your words, and not a word among them Tuned to my liking, on a salty day... When inland woods were pushed by winds, that flung them Hissing to leeward like a ton of spray,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eat what you can get. Where's the salt... in this dump of a village? And, Lucky Man, what's the use of a salty thing if there's no oil in it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Less than five hundred souls inhabit the three quaint streets and the few narrow by-lanes and scattered farmsteads that constitute... this small, decaying watering-place which may, indeed, be called a "backwater of life" without disrespect to its natives who possess, to this day, a salty individuality of their own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these autho...rs. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to inter...fere between them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth...er. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »