Monthly Archives: August 2010

I’m totally bogarting (aka stealing) today’s post from another blog, but it bears repeating. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the … Continue reading →

Have you seen this all over the blogoshphere? According to Wikipedia, it was a poster produced by the British government in 1939 at the beginning of WWII, designed to raise public morale in the event of invasion. Apparently it was … Continue reading →

Don’t you just love weekends! I’m sitting at my computer on Saturday morning – it’s later than it should be and I’m still in my pajamas. Love it! My hair looks like I lost a fight with an egg beater … Continue reading →

Ever see signs at some “restaurants” that advertise “Free Refills”? Some restaurants don’t really advertise it, but that is, in fact, their policy. While some might argue that we don’t need that much coffee, soda, tea, etc., I always think … Continue reading →

Don’t you love the first day of school? All promise and anticipation and reunions. Newly sharpened pencils, fresh white paper tablets, new notebooks! Such hope. such anticipation. Such “new-ness.” The trick, I think, is sustaining the “first day of school” … Continue reading →

Remember the song, “I hope you dance”? Here are part of the lyrics: “I hope you never lose your sense of wonder You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger May you never take one single breath … Continue reading →

Hopeful (adjective) 1. having qualities which inspire hope 2. full of hope: inclined to hope This has to be one of the most powerful words in the dictionary. To be hopeful is to want to get another day. To be … Continue reading →

What is it about Mondays? It has to be more than just the back-to-work thing. Is it the adjustment to the altered scheduled? (sort of like the transition from summer to school days – which, by the way, is careening … Continue reading →