Focus on precision in your writing
By Gary Gilson
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Years ago I ambled from my backyard to a neighbor's and told him I admired the trellis he was building. He wheeled toward me and said, "You work much with teak?"
I erupted into laughter, but stopped short and said: "No offense, Jack. I was laughing at myself, because I don't work with anything."
Except words.
I have no handyman heritage in my family.
Yet I've been working with and loving words ever since my mother taught me to read when I was 4; she had me sound out the letters on the label of a bottle of ketchup.