"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...

"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...