"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns...

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." -Seneca, via Semisonic in Closing Time Sitting at the gate at KECP, waiting...

“what happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there’s nothing that you or anyone else can...

"The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time...

"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny." - David Hume Relishing the irony this morning...

"No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence...

“It helps if you can realize that this part of life when you don’t know what’s coming is often the part that people look back on with the...

Finished my first NYU final yesterday, or so I thought. I was at my computer, ready to roll at 9:55 yesterday, set for a 10 a.m. start....

"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...