Happy Valentine’s Day! When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all. –Theodore Roosevelt Don’t get all relaxed about the Georgia science curriculum yet: Big bang busted in science class for high schools We had a marvelous…
Intimacy
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. –Kathleen Norris
Life & Marriage Quotes
I can handle anything that life throws at me—I may not be able to handle it well, or correctly, or gracefully, or with finesse, or expediently—but I will handle it. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but…
Excellence
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. –Aristotle
Quotes & Cleaning & School
This quote: Television has raised writing to a new low. –Samuel Goldwyn Reminded me of this one: To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.…
Feeling Better
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. –Allan Bloom I don’t agree with MoveOn.org’s push to ask CBS…
Poem: On a Night of Snow
Two quotes: If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. –Chinese proverb Start by doing what is necessary, then do what…
We Found a Castle, Maybe
The tide of change always begins with a trickle of a few nonconformists and then it grows into a veritable flood as increasing numbers of people abandon the convictions of the past. —John Shelby Spong from his book Living In…
It Was a Thursday
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. –Jane Howard
States Meme
When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences. –Author Unknown The context in which I saw this quote was as something parents would tell their children. I think there are just as many adults who need to learn it,…