“You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad,… Read More ›
Education
IS ANYONE LISTENING?
“We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.” ― A.A. Milne “The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but… Read More ›
BLACK FRIDAY EDITION
“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 ›
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 ›
Dad Gone Wild 