In honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday today, I thought I’d share a few of my favorites lines from his poems and books. There is still so much for us adults to learn from his “children’s” books. Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and…
I am wearing pink today. Or, rather, I was wearing pink yesterday – inadvertently on Wednesday – when I wrote this post. Apparently all the cool girls wear…
Two weeks ago my family – including my husband and sons, my sister and her family, my brother and his wife, and my parents – descended on the…
One of the only two plants that are still alive in our house is a tiny little cactus. At first glance, it seems like any ordinary cactus – spindly, thorny, and hazardous, albeit small. But on closer inspection, you would see that its barbs are more like bristly hairs, and…
Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson The piles are everywhere. Wet, sloppy snow is piled up outside my windows. Remnants…
I was scurrying down the street last week when I found a misplaced letter. A gentle breeze had stirred, carrying the note across my path where it…