Summary
Good things, they say, often come in small packages. Once upon a time a small envelope contained two tickets to Cancun; and once a jeweler's little black box opened upon a diamond ring. Smallness also warms the writing art. Gibbon's five volumes of Roman history are justly famed, but a sportswriter's four-word simile also can merit friendly applause.
The sportswriter is Paul Daugherty of The Cincinnati Enquirer. A year or so ago, he wrote about a high school teacher, Karen Buckmeier, who became mentor and godmother to Ike Reese, a poor black kid with a big talent for basketball but no love for learning. Theirs was "a love story, a trust story, a respect story, and a story about the extraordinary potential of the human spirit."See the full content of this document
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Learning From the Good Stuff
Every time Reese cut classes or slacked off, Mrs. B. propped him up: She was on him "like ketchup on fries."
Ahhh! What a splendid simile! ...See the full content of this document
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