Quoth Og Mandino

"Strive to become better than you are."

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The Thrilling Sequel

Laboring over Labor Day Weekend

Well, we certainly labored this weekend, and my poor aching back is the proof. In the spirit of getting daughter ready for her big entrance into seventh grade, we finally convinced her (note that WE had to convince HER) that a wallpaper pattern of chubby hippos and cartoon birds was simply not appropriate for [...]

My Plum Tree

One of the things I love about my house is the trees around it. The most imposing of these are the two huge walnuts — one on the side, and one in the back (though they may not be long for the world, alas, according to the tree trimmers we had out last year.) [...]

Photo Friday: New office + bonus puppy snaps

Lots of blogs seem to make Friday photo day for some reason and eventually, I hope to get back to doing “The Worst of iStock” on Fridays (I got two entries in before I redesigned my journal in WordPress, and I haven’t swapped them over yet) but since I’ve been promising photos of my [...]

Three-quarters of an inch, and Michael Jackson

What do those two things have to do with each other? Well, three-quarters of an inch is the length of the splinter that I was finally able to extract from under my fingernail today. Yes, I sh*t you not, friends and neighbors. That turkey was three-quarters of an inch long (I measured it) and [...]

What a week.

I tell you what, I am simply fashed. When I sat looking at my half-wallpapered office last week, thinking, “gee, how hard could it be just to get that job done? I can knock that out in a day, tops!” I didn’t take into account two facets of my personality that operate in harmonic [...]