My sister in law, Allison, she of the delicious cakes and bizarre dialogue, has promised to put a picture of my choosing on my birthday cake later this month. This was what sprang rather immediately to mind. I mean, Teddy Roosevelt is obviously the best of presidents, and also a dude who would straight up punch a bear in the face while wearing a monocle.
My wife is an English teacher, and she’s been doing a unit on the elements of literature. One of the key elements, as you may remember from your own English classes back in the day, is conflict. Conflict is the driving force behind any story, and it comes in a variety of flavors. According to the Virginia Department of Education’s Standards of Learning (SOLs, or “those things that get in the way of us teaching”), there are six different kinds of conflict:
Sketches From Memory 