Word: confessions
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...child, I measured my mental development (and I was the sort of child, I confess, who found his own mental development fascinating) by the complexity of the jigsaw puzzles I was able to complete. As I learned to do puzzles with smaller, more numerous pieces, graduating from simple farmyard scenes to detailed panoramas of city skylines, I felt better and better about myself. The adults in my life seemed to feel better about me too. But then something unexpected happened. One afternoon when I was 10 or so, I finished a 1,000-piece puzzle of the Milky...
...DOES? I have to confess...
...single writer, photographer, or designer could confess to a pure love of this place, this institution, this almost incomprehensible club. Call it what you will, the Crimson is swollen with passionate people who both love and hate the time they spend here...
...Sometimes it’s tempting to rely on the bare bones rather than take the extra strides to make a story sparkle. When it comes to The Crimson, I guiltily confess to choosing function over fashion, but as my tenure winds down, I regret not taking more time to accessorize. I’m inspired by the devotion of my peers who have logged longer hours, battling unwieldy technology, cheering unhappy staffers, and not settling for lackluster ledes. All to put out a quality paper, day after...
...Virginia that compiled all correspondence to and from America’s first president called The Papers of George Washington. Glendon expressed her reservations about receiving the award in the presence of a less famous albeit equally intimidating figure who attended the ceremony. “I must confess that most of us medalists were a little nervous about the prospect of participating in a formal state occasion under the watchful eye of our fellow honoree Judith Martin (Miss Manners)!” wrote Glendon. Martin, or Miss Manners as she is known in her syndicated Washington Post column...