Waste, Waste, Don't Tell Me
Apologies to the popular NPR radio show but in this case, it was the latter half of that phrase that caught my attention. With the show, the meaning is one of not revealing the answer, as if to say, "wait, I know this and just give me a moment." But it can also be a phrase of denial as when a doctor may walk in the room with your results and you simply say, "don't tell me." Of course there's the mother that shows the dad the empty cookie jar (do such things still exist?) and the dad says with a roll of his eyes, "don't tell me." The scenes of childhood are the memories of future years , wrote The Farmers Almanac ...in 1850! And it was thus that I happened upon a rather large batch of both sports and motivational books being cleared out at my library. It was seemingly all there, the "best" sports writings of earlier years, the "extreme" limits of professional athletes, the blah-blah-blah of sports. Alas, I am so...