The pictures used as ADL actions consist of a child doing the following: brushing his/her teeth, eating, waking up, bathing, putting on a shirt, blowing his/her nose, reading a book, cleaning his/her ears, playing ball, drinking water, and drawing.
Charley's "delicate exploring nose" reads messages that are "perhaps as important in endless time as these pen scratches I put down on perishable paper".
It often seems someone is standing over my shoulder, watching me in my nightie picking my nose and reading what I'm writing.
You know how it is: you're humbly nosing along, reading your manga and anime, updating that blog about same, managing the chain bookstore.
By Willing Davidson June 18 , 2009You know how it is: you're humbly nosing along, reading your manga and anime, updating that blog about same, managing the chain bookstore.
The "wiff-waff" speech — a discourse on the sport formerly known as ping-pong: 2. On using a mobile phone while driving: "I don't believe that is necessarily any more dangerous than the many other risky things that people do with their free hands while driving — nose-picking, reading the paper, studying the A-Z, beating the children, and so on".
These precious ones, for whom my husband and I have lovingly and willingly sacrificed much; with whom I have stayed up countless nights, wiping noses and reading bedtime stories; for whom I have visited dozens of schools and spent hours of research, trying to find the right school; in short, the sons for whom I have given my life could find themselves in danger through no fault of their own.
"It is impossible to hum with your nose plugged," reads the cutout lettering on one.
Now the lines in her face were ineradicable, and when she clapped her glasses onto her nose to read the evening paper she looked to him like an unpleasant stranger.
She would lie in her little twin bed, her glasses perched on her nose, and read and reread a thin sheaf of pages, while I sat in the armchair beside her.
Slate writer Katy Waldman, who studied English literature at Yale, advised students that "if you want to become well-versed in English literature, you're going to have to hold your nose and read a lot of white male poets.
