A Hundred Years' War With Permit

The Miami Herald‘s Sue Cocking has the enemy in her sights, makes contact, and manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. “One thing about quests is that if they’re completed too quickly, they don’t really seem like quests. Like locating the Holy Grail, finishing an Ironman triathlon, or writing, as one woman did, a book about doing the wild thing with your husband 365 days in a row, there has to be some suffering and some setbacks and a decent interval before reaching the finish line.”