• While is one of our most nimble, yet undefined words. You can be a good while, but not a bad one. You can take a while, but you cannot give one. I’ve never encountered a nice while but our days are strewn with meanwhiles that aren’t mean at all. Idlers like me can while away the hours but we can’t while them back. The definition is hard to pin down. It should come as no surprise: Turns out

Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/

Chris Rodell Author, Blogger

Chris Rodell is one of America's most colorful thinkers. Besides unconventional biographies on Fred Rogers and Arnold Palmer, his other books include "Use All The Crayons! The Colorful Guide To Simple Human Happiness," and "The Last Baby Boomer: The Story of the Ultimate Ghoul Pool," a 2016 satiric novel about the life and death of the last baby boomer (winner of the '17 TINARA Award for best satire).

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