Life's Little Inspirations

Clutter, Chaos and their best friend, Disorganization, are a gang I have been fighting with for years. I wasn’t born under that Lucky Star of Naturally Organized. I was born under …

Solitude is Impractical and Yet, Society is Fatal.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the things that surprised me the most in the land of blogging was how many introverts I was destined to meet on-line. In retrospect, I’m not sure why. After …

The best things come in pairs. Like a pair of lovers, or an old happily married couple. Or maybe even in big bunches. Like a bunch of juicy grapes, or a cluster of bright stars lighting up the sky.

Or chocolate. …

To choose art means to turn one’s back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
~Melvin Maddocks

It amazes me to look up from our finished manuscript of Loyalties, only to find that I haven’t written …

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
–Mark Twain

Last year on February 29, Leap …