For my fellow writers:

 

From author Saul Bellow ---

I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'" 

 

 

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

~Oscar Wilde

 

I think my boys are happy and good. Don't pop my bubble. 

 

 

Tattoo  (noun)

Pronunciation:  [t�-'tu]

Definition: (1) A drum beat or bugle call summoning soldiers or sailors to return to quarters in the evening; (2) military exercises accompanied by a band for evening entertainment; (3) any continuous tapping or drumming. (1) A permanent design on the skin made by puncturing it and inserting dyes beneath it.

Usage: (2) Today we again get two words for the price of one, for the word above is, in fact, two words spelled and pronounced identically. Tattoos of the skin, once limited to young men in the military, have recently surged in popularity among civilian youth. We thought that youth in the military might wonder why their bugler every evening plays what they wear on their skin. (He doesn't; he plays something entirely different.)

Suggested Usage: The most interesting military tattoo is the evening exercise, usually involving music, precision marching, and volleys of gunfire: "Evelyn and Will loved to drive out to the fort for a pleasant evening's entertainment, watching the twilight tattoo." Although most young Westerners acquire bodily tattoos for decoration, others find them a pragmatic solution to their problems: "Clarissa finally gave up and had all her Internet passwords tattooed on her arm."

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