I'm busier then a one-armed paperhanger (apparently, working in the Statehouse has led to my speech being peppered with colloquialisms), but I need to remember this ( Read more... )

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
~Benjamin Franklin

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.JK Rowling Commencent address at Harvard University, ( Read more... )

It takes little to make me happy. Case-n-point, the "I Vote I Count" sticker I got at the poll made me giddy, and now on the McCain Bloggette they used my viewer e-mail so I'm all sorts of giggly:

Amelia from Indianapolis, Indiana writes:
I feel compelled to say how much I enjoy this blog! You're quite an inspiration and I hope to share this ( Read more... )

"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past."
-- Henry Ward