in a while

But “every once in a while,” the veteran quarterback said, the team might ask for his opinion about a prospect.

I will tell you one piece of advice I gave Karoline at the beginning is that she’s got a great smile and she should use it and it is OK to lighten up every once in a while.

But once in a while, they're going to get a revelation.

“There’s a sense of hope and optimism that people haven’t seen for a long time. I have a lot of people saying, ‘I’m proud to be a San Franciscan for the first time in a while.’

“It can be getting together with some gal pals that you haven’t convened with in a while,” says Gorman, who became the youth poet laureate of Los Angeles at age 16 in 2014 and the first national youth poet laureate three years later.