Wherein the Greeks are happy to sell you books…unless, of course, you simply steal them. Some of my favorite places in life have been bookstores. Growing up in a small town with a small library, I was in the position of needing to buy most of the books I voraciously read. My family and I … Read More
Grab-and-Go Breakfast
Wherein we breakfast a little like the Romans: with bread, but without belching. Breakfast is seldom a luxurious meal filled with slow-cooked dainties. In fact, if you look up the most common description for breakfast foods, you’ll find our strong preference for “grab-and-go” items: something we can snatch and shove in our food holes as … Read More
Writing: Better Than Being Beaten
Wherein the life of an Egyptian scribe is better than being seized, beaten, smelling worse than fish eggs and/or oozing puss. Ah, the business and technical writer’s life. It’s a bit like being a superspy: Using the latest in microtechnology to draft summaries of quarterly expense reports, sneaking your way through dangerous headquarters to stand … Read More
Hippocrates vs the Cavity Creeps
Wherein the Greeks defeated Mr. Tooth Decay with a powerful combination of oysters and tree sap. I remember commercials for Crest toothpaste from the 1970s–1980s with the “Crest Team,” a nicely diverse group of toothpaste-squirting superheroes, battling the dastardly Cavity Creeps to save the floating city of Toothopolis. While these were supposed to inspire me … Read More
