If you could spend one day with anyone you wanted, who would it be? I asked myself this question recently and agonized over it all day—as if I could come up with one, it might really happen. In the end, I narrowed the list to three; that was the best I could do. So in…
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!’” ~Hunter S. Thompson In my head, I am still…
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~Mark Twain Several years ago, I discovered a book called https://www.carolinemiller.com/creating-your-best-life-book/Creating…
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” ~Sam Leveson Today’s blog continues with last week’s theme of time—only this time, I have a confession to make…I’m a habitual clock watcher. I’m the one sneaking a peak at my watch during a conversation, glancing furtively at the wall clock during a meeting, or…
“Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.” ~Sebastian Faulks, Engleby What is your favorite time of day? Mine is dinner time—and not just because I love to eat (which I do). For me, on a typical day, dinner signals the end of the “must dos” and the beginning of “me time.” I know for…
“Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.” » Donald A. Norberg Larry and I have spent the last 10 days living with three of our grandchildren—two teenage boys and a 10-year-old girl. Talk about a change in life circumstance (more food to fix, more…
“There’s nothing to writing. You just sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” ~Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Since I started this blog, each week I’ve had something in me just waiting to be written. Some weeks, I had the luxurious dilemma of being forced to…
I never thought I’d be an eBook convert. I love the smell of a new book, the weight of it in my hand, the turn of the page. Then I got a Nook as a gift. I thought, okay, I’ll use it to be polite. I might like it for traveling—and I have. I haven’t…
When I was a child, we had a junk drawer (sorry Mom)—full of all the miscellaneous items that we might someday need, but that didn’t really have a place of their own. I can picture dried up pens, loose buttons and coins, a frayed cloth tape measure, bent paperclips, a used fingernail file. And for…
We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~ Ellen Goodman It’s the final week of the year….
