"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." -Horace Last night completed our cinematic trifecta of Willie Wonka...

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool." -Carl Jung "As I walk through this wicked world Searchin' for...

This week has been a blur. We're back at the farm this morning, and in a few minutes I start an expert witness deposition, one of the...

"Don't ever forget that you just may end up being wrong." -James Buffett So, P and I last night found ourselves in a conversation about...

"To do two things at once is to do neither". -Publius Syrus Back when I flew for a living, we learned about the perils of cognitive task...

"If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him." - George Herbert A short post today after losing my Monday between flying the Columbia to...

"I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead." - William...

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." - William James It's been a gloomy political season in this country, feeling like the...

“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who...

"It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a...

"Then he told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no...

"I'm goin' crazy, Goin' crazy, Oo, from the heat." -David Lee Roth, 1985 Awakened this morning to gray skies and cool, damp air, much...

"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."...

“The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and...

"Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life." -Werner Herzog A brief one today, because I need to drag the old Chris...

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.” -George Bernard Shaw I missed a weekday on this blog...

Some people never find it Some only pretend, but me? I just want to live happily ever after Every now and then -Jimmy Buffett Years ago I...

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the...

Oh, I hear a voice That says I'm running behind I better pick up my pace It's a race and there ain't No room for someone in second place...

"If youth knew; if age could." -Sigmund Freud Do you ever have a song playing through your head? Maybe a whole album? I've been there the...