“People don’t like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we’re bored.” ― Salman Rushdie, The… Read More ›
Month: November 2019
ABOUT THAT MONEY…
“I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable… Read More ›
NURTURING THE SEEDS
“CORY: You ain’t never gave me nothing! You ain’t never done nothing but hold me back. Afraid I was gonna be better than you. All you ever did was try and make me scared of you. I used to tremble… Read More ›
NOVEMBER CAN BE A CRUEL MONTH
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” ― Hunter S…. Read More ›
HARSH TIMES WARRANT HARSH WORDS
“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.” (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)” ― Voltaire “Those were people launched into an exodus of biblical proportions,… Read More ›
WITH HEAVY HEART
“It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.” ― Roger Kah “A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us… Read More ›
WHATS THE PLAN STAN?
“I’m an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.” ― Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe’s Guide to Life “Perhaps after all, for all our talk of change,… Read More ›
JUST ANOTHER POLITICAL EXCERCISE
“Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world belongs to them, they parley… Read More ›
TALES OF INQUIRY
“earn what you can since everything’s for sale” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales “The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is… Read More ›
LETTER TO METRO COUNCIL ENDORSING KEVIN STACEY FOR SCHOOL BOARD
I’m writing you this morning to ask you to please vote on November 5th for Kevin Stacey as the District 7 School Board Representative. His opponent, Ms Player would be a wonderful appointment for almost any government position, but this… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 