Lord, please help me to change - Judith Couchman

FALSE START SAND FUMBLE SIn our first attempts to change,it's normal to falter and fail.r M / atharin e Angel l wa s the righ t woma n i n th e righ t plac eat the righ t time . On th e recommendation o f a friend—and despit e he r yout h an d inexperience—th e recentl y launche dNew Yorker magazine hire d he r a s an editor .Katharine's insigh t and attentio n t o detail authenticated th erecommendation.Not lon g after, she marrie d New Yorker author E . B . White.In thei r late r years and he r retirement , th e White s hired a secre -tary t o hel p wit h th e volume s o f wor k an d correspondenc eresulting from forty years of marriage and publishing .By this time, Katharin e ha d succumbe d t o poor healt h an da dramatic chang e i n personality . Sh e gre w difficul t and he r per -fectionistic tendencies balloone d int o obsessions . Voluminou sand detaile d correspondence— a stron g sui t i n Katharine' s day sas an editor—gre w t o irritate eve n he r devoted husband .Katharine needed t o change .Valiantly, sh e attempted changin g durin g he r favorit e tim eof year for letter writing: the Christmas season .28