OK. I have to read Machiavelli again so that I can see what you saw. I only have two kids, and I suffer the same way you suffered. Motherhood makes so many of us feel incompetent; I completely and whole-heartedly related to your mothering pre-Machiavellian techniques.
Great post.
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- October 5th, 2010, 12:34 am
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: What Machiavelli Taught Me About Motherhood
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2317
- October 5th, 2010, 12:28 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Commas....vagrants of the punctuation world
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1089
Re: Commas....vagrants of the punctuation world
This was really fun to read. I teach College English and I show a powerpoint on commas, but my students still don't get them. I go over them so many times a semester, correcting the same mistakes on so many papers, they're driving me crazy...the commas, that is.
- October 5th, 2010, 12:24 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Who Would Be Your Literary BFF?
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Re: Who Would Be Your Literary BFF?
Jane Eyre - She's calm, cool, collected, and she figures out the hypocrites of society at a very young age. Nice post.
- October 5th, 2010, 12:21 am
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Literary Agents and One-Night-Stands
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- Views: 1436
Literary Agents and One-Night-Stands
Waiting for a literary agent to call you after he has requested your entire manuscript is like waiting for a one-night-stand to call you the day after he has ravaged your body, drenched in the sweat of your passion, your entire soul spread wide open, naked, wanting to be possessed, to be read, to be...