Please...Take that shower, use that soap, dodge those articles when you can.
A lot of you do not know this and even more of you will not care, but I still feel obliged to share. This particular piece is part subject matter and part response to my editor. Around three weeks ago I was working diligently on a story about “opt-in illiteracy” - breaking my back to get it to print on time. By the end of the stint, which had already resulted in me doubling up my therapy regimen, my piece was overlooked and I was thrown back to the wolves with nothing but a m