Month: February 2008

  • Quotations

    The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.Amanda Cross

  • Appearances

    This is what sad looks like. This is what sorry looks like. This is what bad spelling look like. This is what intimacy looks like. This is what deaf looks like. This is what stupid looks like. This is what “Oh, shit!” looks like. This is what your tax dollars look like. This is what…

  • Impossible

    We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.Vince Lombardi

  • For My Twisted Friends

    via email from Martha Clark, Sun, 3 Feb 2008 11:14:14 -0800

  • Democracy

    We mustn’t ever lose our courage to speak up.  To keep track.  To keep score.  Pay attention.  It’s work to be in a democracy.  It’s restful to be in a dictatorship; you click your heels and obey, but in the democracy you have to earn it and keep it fresh.Marcia Hunt, actress speaking to Bob…

  • Are you smarter than an eighth grader?

    Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education?  Well, check this out.  Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?This is the eighth grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society…

  • Parents

    Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde