"See the signs and know their meaning." -Natalie Merchant Yesterday I missed a conference call. The subject of the call was coordination...

"The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other...

"We have more and more words now, and being truly adult is largely the effort to make the lying words stand for the old living truth."...

"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years." -Ausonius So, Saturday was the big...

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Winston Churchill Awoke this morning with a toothache, a sign...

"You can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that...

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth." -Henry David Thoreau Back at my desk at Tara, which is not where...

“Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.” –Emily Dickinson A very brief one this morning, with a...

"I cannot command winds and weather." -Horatio Nelson Stuck in Dallas, where the weather doesn't look so bad--just sort of gloomy with an...

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred...

“First you take a cat treat, then the cat treat takes a cat treat, then the cat treat takes you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald Our Deano has a...

"We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our citizens...

"You've got to find what you love and let it kill you." -Kinky Friedman An incredibly busy, not so productive weekend. Friday morning,...

… Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped Look at that low plane, fine, then Uh oh, overflow, population, common...

Ma chambre a la forme d'une cage Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre Les chasseurs à ma porte Comme les p'tits soldats Qui veulent me...

You run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same, in a...

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." -Mary Wollstonecraft A blessedly cool...

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya Angelou Peg and I found ourselves on the front porch last...

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." ― Hippocrates I blame the beautiful Peggy Bowen for today's late start, which...

“There are times for sleep, for inactivity, dreaming, indiscipline, even lethargy. You’ll know when you deserve these times. They come...