"Don't worry too much if you don't pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the subject. It's amazing what you can get by the...

"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know......

"Words are all we have." - Samuel Beckett A perfectly bleak December morning in the Twin Tiers. I almost wrote "Southern Tier", which...

Turn on my VCR Same one I've had for years James Brown on the TAMI show Same tape I've had for years I sit in my old car Same one I've...

In the bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone: snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,...

"A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave . . . The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities . . . a natural...

"One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions." - Horace So, the...

"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius." - Pietro Aretino Began my day crunching across the dusting of snow on the grass,...

Home for the holidays I believe I've missed each and every face Come on and play one easy Let's turn on the love lights in the place It's...

The excesses of our youth, are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. ~C.C. Colton, Lacon: or,...

Love in a Life By Robert Browning I Room after room, I hunt the house through We inhabit together. Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou...

"Now the LORD provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights." -Jonah 1: 17...

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five...

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." -...

So, a little lesson here. We're in Corning this morning, sipping lattes from the super espresso machine Issac and Olivia bought us four...

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain Today won't be my most focused effort; there's simply...

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus "Here is the rule to remember in the...

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." — Oscar Wilde Day seven of the beginning of the end arrives in the...

“He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down...

"We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness." - Thucydides Hard...