Search girls and guns online and you’ll find plenty of sites--most of them depicting the two as favorite objects of men. But what about guns for girls? And for women too. That’s a tougher search. Even when you find sites catering to women, they often mimic the rough jargon and male bravado of other gun sites. As if that was the only way to teach and talk about firearms.
Welcome to your reader's brain. If you're going to make some sort of impression there, you'll want to know what you're up against. At first glance, you may think you've stumbled into an overloaded antique store. Every shelf is already crammed with stuff, some of it useful, some questionable, some so utterly irrelevant you wonder who would ever buy such a thing.
Recent conversations with clients and colleagues have revealed a troubling downturn in people’s perceived value of themselves. I understand what has happened to the real estate values in Arizona—they were never really there. Unregulated mortgage insurance instruments allowed lenders to give mortgages to many borrowers without concern if they could actually pay them. Then boom, the bottom fell out. But what has happened to the human value?