Month: March 2009

There’s one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor’s. ~Clyde Moore All this week we’ve had unseasonably warm weather high 60’s and 70’s most days and then this morning, snow. We needed it Continue reading One Good Thing About Snow…→

“It’s possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman’s earring—with immense, even startling power.”— Continue reading Carver→

“Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.”Ogden Nash My plan was to be done with the taxes (business and personal) by Continue reading The Taxes Last Us All The Year→

“The greatest danger, that of losing one’s own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed.”Soren Kierkegaard OK I Continue reading Seven Steps to Losing Your Mind→

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and Continue reading A Quote from Papa→