An Excerpt to Brighten Your Day

"Many vegetables and fruits are spherical in shape and tone and shading in your drawing will help to create the illusion of a sole object."

An Excerpt to Brighten Your Day

"Seeing that he was employing familiar maneurvers to extricate himself from unpleasant conversation, she slipped her arm through his and said: 'I was waiting for you. I didn't know you would be so late. I just wondered if you had bought Dilcey.'"

An Excerpt to Brighten Your Day

"There was talk that addiontal tax cuts would revitalize economic growth. But in the Fed's analysis, the lingering lethargy reflected anxiety and uncertainty about war, not a need for more stimulus."

An Excerpt to Brighten Your Day

"Its beginning is usually dated to the advent of the steam engine, which was based on the conversion of chemical energy in wood or coal to thermal energy and then to mechanical work - primarily the powering of industrial machinery and steam locomotives."

An Excerpt to Brighten Your Day

"We have an emergency,

Amber told their Uncle Eddie B.

who asked like he always asked,

Who broke what this time

Still he promised

to come fix it

It'll be like new, he said,

only not till tomorrow."

An Excerpt to Brighten Your Day

"Effective operations planning enables production to flow easily throughout the factory, secures an efficient utilization of machines and labour, and facilitates good production scheduling."

An Excerpt to Brighten Your Day

"Come on up with me and I'll show you my charm bracelet. I have a little silver telephone with a receiver that really comes off the hook."

An Excerpt to Brighten Your Day

"According to my bouncer friend, the thief botched the job and had the police coming from everywhere. He must have panicked when he heard the sirens and tossed the bag away in case the police nabbed him."