Archive For March 31, 2020
What counts in making a happy marriage is not how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. – Leo Tolstoy HER DIARY. Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a bar to have a drink. I was shopping with my friends all day long, so…
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. – Mary Wortley Montagu My, how soon old we get one moment, a whole life before us the next – do i mean moment…
Tis known by the name of perseverance in a worthy cause—and obstinacy in a bad one. – Laurence Sterne 1986 I was re-learning the marathon this year, having run more than twenty already in my “career.” I found them to be cruel and unfair, having worked very hard to prepare for so many, only to…
To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Two engineering students were riding bicycles across a university campus when one said, “Where did you get the great bike?” The second engineer replied, “Well, I was walking…
Typhoid Mary: The Irishwoman blamed for bringing a deadly disease to New York Mary Mallon was vilified and suffered extreme punishment for something she had no control over. By Nathan Mannion for The Irish Times. March 24, 2020 At the dawn of the 20th century New York City, like numerous other locations around the world, was…
Your responsibility to be ready for the fight never ends. – James Yeager The 8 Habits of Highly Lucky People Optimism and flexibility are vital to success in anything. by Neil Farber M.D, Ph.D., CLC, CPT for Psychology Today. January 26, 2016. I co-wrote this post with my daughter Josiana (aka Shoshana) Farber, who is studying psychology…
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about politics. I tell them it’s because I’m smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable gambling addict. – Hunter S. Thompson I continue to plow through my piles of paper, interned as I…
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I’ve ended up where I needed to be. – Douglas Adams he walked on slowly shoulders hunched into himself as against a bitter wind. he would have stuck out his thumb to speed his pace but he could not bear the rejection…
When you believe Donald Trump’s lies, you endanger yourself, your loved ones and all the rest of us. – Barker Ajax Who Can Trump Blame for the Pandemic? Can Trump really propaganda his way out of this catastrophe? by MOLLY JONG-FAST MARCH 20, 2020 The pandemic that Donald Trump has been denying pretty much on the…
Hearing from Bobby Hodge is like going for a long run with a world-class talker. I struggle to breathe, hopelessly hoping to keep up barely and he’s just jabbering away like we’re not even running hard. – JDW Cutting loose. In 1977 I quit college and got a job in a supermarket, bagging groceries. I…