I ran across a blog this week that was hosting a giveaway for Zippity Doo’s- Children’s Daily Use Hair Care Products that Help Prevent Lice! OK, I’m not even going to mention the seemingly unnecessary apostrophe in the product name, as that is just me being nit-picky (hee!). I’m also not going to discuss the…
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Laugh and the World Laughs With You
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings I’ve just finished Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, and while I’m sure there are MANY things I’m going to…
The Dance
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? -Friedrich Nietzsche All our fat, jolly snowmen have lost their pebble eyes, their carrot noses; they are…
Snowdrop
“When will it be summer?” asked the Flower, and she repeated this question each time a new sunbeam made its way down to her. But the summer was yet far distant. The snow still lay upon the ground, and there was a coat of ice on the water every night.“What a long time it takes!…
Spring in My Step, Spring in My Heart
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. -Victor Hugo The weather is warming, the snow is melting, I can see the word “spring” on my calendar. I am becoming cautiously optimistic– perhaps this winter will end, after all. I saw on Twitter that “Round here there are 4 seasons. Winter,…
Turbo Tax Gift Card WINNER is…..
Comment #8: Jeff Schroth. Congrats Jeff, I’m going to need your address! Thanks to everybody who entered my very first giveaway.
A Little Boredom is Good for You
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. -Saul Steinberg The ongoing caption for this photo is “Tell my kids to go out and play and what do they do? Build a snow couch and watch snow TV.” Know why? They…
Philadelphia Zoo Pt. 2: McNeil Avian Center
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. Emily Dickinson Now, had it been up to me, I think I could have happily passed all four hours at the zoo in the McNeil Avian Center. Usually it’s quite crowded and you get a bit of that “cattle drive” feeling…
Giveaway: Turbo Tax Deluxe Gift Card
I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. OK, nobody really likes to pay taxes. But the order-loving side of me enjoys the calculations involved, the collecting of relevant papers, the sorting of numbers and then the filing away of another year. Even though everybody and their mother insists…
