Sh***y First Drafts

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really sh***y first drafts.

- Annie Lamott

Bird by Bird

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Everybody Has a Good Side

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side; just keep waiting, it will come out.

- Randy Pausch

The Last Lecture

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Stay Curious!

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

- T. S. Eliot



Sunset fishing with Grandpa
Deer Lake
Boyne Mountain, Michigan

Are You Going to be Strong Today?

Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'

- Peter Maher

Canadian marathon runner

The King's Breakfast

In honor of my Boobalicious' 5th birthday, instead of a quote I bring you his favorite poem: "The King's Breakfast." (Best read aloud with exaggerated British accents.)

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The King asked the Queen, and
The Queen asked the Dairymaid:
"Could we have some butter for
The Royal slice of bread?"
The Queen asked the Dairymaid,
The Dairymaid said, "Certainly,
I'll go and tell the cow
Now before she goes to bed."

The Dairymaid she curtsied,
And went and told the Alderney:
"Don't forget the butter for
The Royal slice of bread."
The Alderney said sleepily:
"You'd better tell his Majesty
That many people nowadays
Like marmalade instead."

The Dairymaid said, "Fancy!"
And went to her Majesty.
She curtsied to the Queen, and
She turned a little red:
"Excuse me, your Majesty,
For taking of the liberty,
But marmalade is tasty, if
It's very thickly spread."

The Queen said "Oh!:
And went to his Majesty:
"Talking of the butter for
The royal slice of bread,
Many people think that
Marmalade is nicer.
Would you like to try a little
Marmalade instead?"

The King said, "Bother!"
And then he said, "Oh, deary me!"
The King sobbed, "Oh, deary me!"
And went back to bed.
"Nobody," he whimpered,
"Could call me a fussy man;
I only want a little bit
Of butter for my bread!"

The Queen said, "There, there!"
And went to the Dairymaid.
The Dairymaid said, "There, there!"
And went to the shed.
The cow said, "There, there!
I didn't really mean it;
Here's milk for his porringer,
And butter for his bread."

The Queen took the butter
And brought it to his Majesty;
The King said, "Butter, eh?"
And bounced out of bed.
"Nobody," he said,
As he kissed her tenderly,
"Nobody," he said,
As he slid down the banisters,
"Nobody, my darling,
Could call me a fussy man -
BUT
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread!"

- A. A. Milne

The King's Breakfast

Heaven or Hell?

The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

-         John Milton

Paradise Lost

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Take Pleasure in Reading

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

-                     Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey

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