e.e. says to fight
"To be nobody but myself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me somebody else – means to fight the hardest battle any…
your permission slip
Hey grown-ups out there, can you remember the joy of a field trip? Some or all classes were canceled that day, and you had to pack a special lunch and…
can you believe it’s already national train day again?
“the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.” – from the children's…
something is better than everything
"One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something." – Henry David Thoreau I took this picture at a 4th of July parade in a…
’tis the season to open up our big mouths
"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure." – Joseph Campbell A friend of mine took this picture of…
what being organized feels like
“Organizing is what you do before you do something so that, when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” – A. A. Milne Being organized, like everything else…
made of books and bones
"I am a part of everything that I have read." – Theodore Roosevelt Well said, Teddy. I suppose the same applies to the reverse, that everything I have read is…
april 15th will be such a relaxing day!
Some of my friends despise numbers. They gag at the sight of them. Okay, maybe they don't actually gag, but they do occasionally break into the cold sweats. So when…
cheer up, ol’ buddy
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." – Mark Twain We all get crabby and blue at times, even when there's not…
coming out as a polymath
A lot of people are not monogamous when it comes to career. Yet when filling out an information form or when asked about one's work at a social gathering, a…
