“Don’t do what you want. Do what you don’t want. Do what you’re trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters “We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas… Read More ›
Education
CAN WE TAME THE UMBRAGE?
“Challenge a person’s beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to… Read More ›
TEACHER’S, HAVE YOU GOT THE MESSAGE YET?
“Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.” ― Alex Haley “I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way…. Read More ›
HAS ANYONE CALLED SHOTGUN RED?
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals “I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore… Read More ›
SOMETHING MUST BE IN THE WATER
“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 ›
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 ›
Dad Gone Wild 