As healthy as …
A bracing, surprising simile for presenting something as a picture of health and wholesomeness. Here it is about reading material,...
The last and the first
Hand written cards and letters are part of an ancient but rapidly dying art, hardly helped by the high ratio...
Sound medical advice
I love a doctor's advice to the apathetic aristocrat Oblomov, suggesting he minimize stress by avoiding the awkward and exhausting...
Apple-cheeked children
It's an obvious one, but still a charming picture of innocence and health, apple-cheeked.
'I'm sure I never saw a...
As fit as …
I learned of this fitting simile for fitness in a phone call this morning. A friend was telling me about...
Of anguish and identity
Witnessing various global unravellings, this simple assertion by the wise Saint-Exupery makes one wonder if we will ever learn to...
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