Monthly Archives: November 2008

Excerpt from Rebecca Alden's Master Thesis on Ampersand

Excerpt from Rebecca Alden

You know why fairy tales end with “AND they lived happily ever after”?

Because the BUT wouldn’t do the trick.

If you want to live life to the fullest, if you want to give your daily life a daily happy ANDing, start signing off with some more ANDs instead of all your BUTs. Read More »

Fran is a great and talented friend.

She and her wife have a peculiar view on life which I admire very much.

Just to give you an example:

Yesterday she told me she and her wife raised their kids with only four rules:

  • don’t hurt yourself
  • don’t hurt others
  • don’t break things
  • and don’t use ‘bite-words’.

“What are bite-words?”, I wondered. Read More »

stats-dcNever had so many readers in one day as yesterday.

What happened?

Go through yesterday’s posts and you’ll get a pretty good idea.

It all started with a story.

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