"I think I'm an alpha and she's an alpha, and I'm used to taking my altercations physical and she's used to having them verbal.
My internal alteration commenced at the arrival of my son.
I "tidy" Thoreau's manuscript no more than necessary to make his work in progress accessible to the reader, and for each of my substantive alterations, I present an editorial note in the back of the volume.
I worked my way through "Alteration of Vegetable Colours by Acids and Alkalis," "Experiments with Coloured Liquors and Sympathetic Inks," "Chemical Metamorphoses," and then got on to the serious stuff.
As my sneer of envy, disdain and rage subsided, I realised there'd been a much more significant alteration in my outlook than losing my taste for one public school.
On my previous visit, he had asked his employees to adjust one of the shoulders a quarter inch, because my right shoulder is lower than my left, but the alteration had not been built in.
And when the overwhelming sadness that infiltrated my being was mixed with anxiety, it made for a prescription of a complete alteration to my life.
When we came out, it happened again and this time it was escalated into a physical alteration with my friend's little brother getting pulled out of the car, my other friend screaming at people to turn over his phone that he dropped, and me yelling "SIR PLEASE" in a vain attempt to break this all up from the driver's seat.
"I was 25, too young, I felt, to make such a life-changing alteration in my body.
But only one book had such a decisive impact that I can date to it a profound alteration in my worldview and even behaviour.
We have experienced the sort of vast, quantum alteration that my father describes experiencing during a life that brought him from childhood in rural India to retirement from a surgical practice in Ohio.
