At the dinner table, while I was peeling the skin off a piece of cod, or chewing a mouthful of hashed lung, her image might suddenly appear and she was so radiant that everything else was pushed into the shadows.
I came across the following observation in a Victorian travel brochure while I was researching this piece.
It was while I was researching my piece on Pakistan that I understood what might happen when you sent a writer to cover education.
Afterward, while I was reporting a piece about the Gang of Eight negotiations, Heritage and its tactics repeatedly came up in interviews with Republican senators.
On the positive front, I was called while I was writing this piece by someone who used to be a close colleague of Blackhurst's.
While I was reporting this piece, I spoke with Patrick Alley, one of the founders of Global Witness, a nonprofit group that grew out of the Environmental Investigation Agency.
While I was checking the piece and reading Bleeding Edge, which is set in New York in 2001, the Guardian broke several more stories on the NSA.
I had an email, I tell Creed, while I was researching this piece, from an extremely well-known singer; not somebody I had imagined would have the slightest interest in perfume.
I had a visit from Walker Field while I was writing this piece, when he turned up in a dream, nicely dressed and with his freshly combed hair still dark from his shower.
While I was reporting the piece, David Friedberg, the Climate Corporation's thirty-three-year-old chief executive, told me that Monsanto had agreed to purchase the company for about a billion dollars.
