Color is on the way!!!

Tell anyone you see me, and one you’re done for …

And no, for the record, this is not one of mine – so for those of you (Donna) who were preparing for some sort of intervention, no worries!

But I will be – in a few short months!

Photo:  Copyright © 2009 Joshua D. Brueggemann. All rights reserved.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-- Robert Frost

Paraskevidekatriaphobia:  a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th.  Term coined by Dr. Donald Dossey, who would tell his patients, “when you can learn to pronounce it, you’re cured!”  If you do suffer from such a condition – perhaps today’s a good day to work on that pronunciation…

Six more weeks of this.  We can only hope the poor fellow just needs glasses. 

“I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it’s not a waste of time.” – Martha Stewart

And, dare I say, better than ever?!

Let us be serious in our resolve to have a great new year

A good way to test your Christmas spirit is to have a "helper" while wrapping presents.  Small children and kits are often good in this role ...

Do you remember me?; I sat upon your knee; I wrote to you with childhood fantasies; well I'm all grown-up now, but I still need help somehow; I'm not a child, but my heart still can dream ...

Lyrics; This is My Grown up Christmas List; ©Warner-Tamerlane Publishing

Picture courtesy of the Valley View Retirement Christmas party, 2007. 

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?  It came without ribbons.  It came without tags.  It came without packages, boxes or bags.  And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.  Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.  What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.  What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.  ~Dr. Seuss

Nothing says Thanksgiving like a bun sandwich

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.  Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."  -Hal Borland

"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at a such a speed ... it feels an impulsion ... this is the place to go now.  But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons."  - Richard Bach

Some say my second cousin and I look alike.  Personally, I just don't see it ...

This woman waltzes into the park and all we get is this stupid photo op

And now we know why the candles were on clearance.  Sigh.