She was grateful, and offered to write a recommendation, but his hope that the job would extend beyond Oct. 30 was not realized.
"He said, 'If this comes back for a second season, can I write [an episode] next season?' I said, 'We should be so lucky -- you can write 13 of 'em if you want to!' He's been super involved, but Stephen's first love has always been writing novels so I think he's very grateful to get to write this book and feel like his baby is being taken care of.
While watching Paul headline the Olympics closing ceremony in front of the Queen in 2012, it occurred to me that he might be quite grateful if I was to write an 800-page book about him.
The best students, schools hope, will become successful (and grateful) alumni, with the wherewithal to write them huge cheques.
I feel grateful to have the privilege to write, but now that I have it, what can I say?
His was a story that deserved to be told, and I am grateful that McGrath was able to write it.
As the founder of Savvy Auntie, the lifestyle brand for cool aunts, great-aunts, godmothers and all women who love kids, which I launched in 2008, I felt compelled to write a grateful reply on behalf of all the "amazing aunties".
The teacher was the sage, and he or she was supposed to deliver knowledge to the grateful students who were expected to write down the sage's words and deliver it back to them, often word for word, in exams if they wanted to score an A. In the old model, the teacher is the broadcaster, sending information from transmitter to receiver in a one-way, linear fashion.
By approaching it this way, you have told your ex-boss that a) they did nothing wrong, and in fact you're grateful they took the time to write a letter, b) that you have specific needs, and c) would they mind filling them for you.
Trees Lounge was really hard for me to write, so I was grateful to have other material come to me through Eddy Bunker that was already there.
