Given the Day. . .

It seems scarcely short of mandatory to make some mention of Robert Louis Stevenson, although Google beat me to the punch by redecorating their search page with motifs from Treasure Island, in honor of its author's 160th birthday. I judged it an occasion auspicious enough to be celebrated with a glass of Scotch and several of Stevenson's short stories and essays. Of that number, this one best continues the theme set by Google and throws in some interesting trivia, and writing advice to boot :