
Have you ever found a quote that completely and utterly summed up a feeling that you've had but you couldn't necessarily put it into words? After
Robert Parker's crack at the wine blogging industry last week, I've had a ball of frustration inside me sitting idle without the appropriate words to describe its composition. Sticky, thick and irrational, I felt bound by my nervous system, encapsulating my logic, until now.
Over the past few weeks, I've been enthralled by Jeff Shaara's book, "Rise to Rebellion", giving words, feelings and much needed context to a war I vaguely understood in high school textbooks: The Revolutionary War.
Nearing the end of the book,
Benjamin Franklin, physically worn from years of fighting an uphill intellectual battle over the freedom of the colonists from English ...