I closed my eyes and downed the
spoonful in one giant gulp.
And speaking of stories that fall into one's lap, how did your play Water By the
Spoonful come to be?
Christian Burch's debut novel, The Manny Files (Atheneum), is being billed as "David Sedaris meets Mary Poppins," but in this case a
spoonful of saccharin doesn't help the reading go down.
Finally, I duct-taped a spoon to a pole and scooped the gelatinous mass out through the cleanout opening,
spoonful by
spoonful.
It's one thing to add a
spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down.
For some disabled veterans and their families, the CHAMPVA Meds by Mail program is the
spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down.
A
spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down, as Julie Andrews taught, and Gallagher had it both ways, wrapping refined abstractions around the bitter pill of history.
When melted, add herbal infusion,
spoonful by
spoonful until mixture is blended.
And telling it in the guise of a story is the
spoonful of sugar for what is at bottom an exhilarating medicine, but one which all too few people in business take.
On this third outing, he and his quartet of instrumental masters show they are advancing this musical art with a delicious gumbo of Afro-Caribbean beats and mainstream jazz that swings tastefully
spoonful after
spoonful.
