Again, it has been a while since the last post.  Disappointment over interviews has changed into joy over being accepted for publication.  My words are going to be read and you never really know the power of a word until it is out there.  This has been illustrated nicely by Mitt Romney's comment over the apparent lack of readiness for the start of the Games - so much for Anglo-Saxon solidarity.

Every word has life and can reproduce.  Its offspring are reported, regarded, retweeted: the compound interest of the soundbite.  She resolved to leave certain things unsaid.