Category: Insight Quotes
Think You Have It Hard?
On the weekend I went in search of signs of life or spring. On this day, for the past few years, cherry blossoms already emerged pink and cheery. Not this year. It’s as if Mother Nature did no... Read More
When Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling But
You know things aren’t okay when it’s 3 am and I’m racing to get a post up. After an excruciating day of slow and crashing computers I called my host, Godaddy and apparently they are... Read More
The Garden Muse Wisdom: Do This When Snowed Under
The stone garden muse has been literally snowed under and so have I: on every level. Buried with work and piles of papers, laundry and snow growing is this winter’s metaphor. It was time to dr... Read More
Roosevelt’s Advice On President’s Day
One of my favorite “can do” quotes is by Theodore Roosevelt and his advice fits President’s Day or any other day. Life, conditions and reality is never perfect. It’s bitterly c... Read More
Memories and Backdoor Thieves
One of my favorite long time readers disappeared during the unfortunate blog migration and he emailed me recently to see how I was doing. I guess he missed the email about the changes. Countless other... Read More
Monday Motivation: New York Blizzard
We were late putting away the lawn furniture this year. So late we figured why not leave a couple of chairs to measure snow accumulation. For fun. This was sn... Read More
The Past is Never Dead
One of the reasons I love old crumbling artifacts and architecture, worn stones and yellowed pages, is they remind me that the past is never dead, as the Faulkner quote goes. Even when they’re d... Read More