On your lunch hour, perhaps you should not sit at your desk and read account of seven astronauts dying 16 minutes from home.

Because you may suddenly have to hide your face in a binder full of documentation, tears in your eyes, hoping no one chooses this moment to say, "Hey, whatcha reading?"

Danny Kaye: "Do you really wanna know?"
Bing Crosby: "Yes," mimicking "I really wanna know."
Danny Kaye: "Well I'm really gonna tell you..."

A while back I posted about my love of Rice Krispies treats

And I still really want to know...what's the story behind your love of a particular food?

Like some others who've posted recently, I'm having a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit. I have moments of it -- bright, fleeting flashes wherein I feel generous and happy and the world seems to smell a little sweeter. In between there, it's a lot of muddle and slogging and I don't know what all ( Read more... )

Alphabet your life

Comment and I'll give you a letter.
You have to list 10 things you love that begin with that letter.
Afterward, post this in your journal.

davesanngel gave me the letter "L"

1.Lemon. Lemon the color. Lemon the flavor. Lemon the scent. Especially Lemon the scent. I love the smell of lemons.

2.Laurel Ann. My mother.

3.Laurel, the ( Read more... )

"To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand
is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there."

-Thiruvalluvar, poet (c. 1st century BCE or 6th century CE)