If there are only a few people in the room, if it's an informal setting, if we're used to presenting seated, if it's a board meeting and all the board is sitting, if I want to send out a casual message, if I don't want to be too authoritative – then can I present sitting down?
"Using these long handled spoons, I can picture my boys and I sitting around a campfire, eating beans out of the fire-charred can they were cooked in.
But, how many times can I write about sitting on a bike for 60 minutes?
Jack knew him well, and I can remember sitting, when I was twelve or thirteen, on his plastic-coated couches and watching him smoke cigarettes while we waited for the blasting to start again, above the hollow where he was nearly the last to leave.
It's funny – I feel more comfortable telling everyone everything in writing than I can sitting in front of my therapist.
When the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 happened, she said, "I can remember sitting in my bed crying, and I thought: Am I crying for them or am I crying for me, that I don't get to cover the biggest story in the world?" Ms. Winfrey said: "She loves television more than anybody I know.
"I can remember sitting in those chairs when I was thinking about applying," says Baylor, who studies the transition of high school students to college.
"I can function sitting on my butt and talking, I am fine," she said.
"I can remember sitting in a Glasgow theater when I was a wee lad," a Scottish friend told me later, "a bag of sweeties in my hand, lusting in my infantile way after the long-legged Prince Charming".
"I do the calmest, easiest thing I can find: sitting out by the pool in the backyard".
I can be sitting backstage with my head in my hands, wondering what I'm going to do, and I'll pull something out of a suitcase and it becomes almost medicinal.
