“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
-Theodore Roosevelt (president)
I just finished my first week as a web intern with a non-profit newspaper that covers K-12 education. It’s most definitely not your retail or food [...]
More Fruits and Veggies, Please
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to – act as if it were impossible to fail.
-Dorothea Brande (writer)
I’m not upset. Let’s get that straight. After all, how the hell are you supposed to definitively know your kid has a food intolerance-especially when your [...]
65. 75. 69. 73.
That’s what the temperature has been for the last few days. It’s like spring never happened – that transitional phase from really cold days to really hot days, the perfect days where there’s a slight breeze that calls for a light, second layer but not cold enough for a heavily [...]
Always desire to learn something useful.
-Sophocles (poet)
I love to read. I love to read so much, I have a backlog of books I want to read saved as a wishlist. It’s crazy, but what I can say? As much as I love reading books, I also take pleasure in reading [...]
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown (poet)
I love getting mail. Whenever my parents send me care packages [...]
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
-Miriam Beard
A few more pages and I’ll be finished with Paul Theroux’s The Kingdom by [...]

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