On our regular walk in the woods the other day, Dan and I bagged three zebras, a lion, a dinosaur, and two disturbing naked kewpie dolls. Two of the zebras were damaged, one with shards like ribs where it had been shattered, but the plastic did not enrich the forest as real ribs would. They…
As a writer I’ve heard the advice Less is More all my life. But why? What does less offer that’s greater than more? Here’s a literary example: The luxuriant, soft, red, gold and brown coat of my athletic old farm dog shimmered and gleamed in the bright warm sunshine as he investigated his surroundings with…