Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Jumping the shark

    "Jumping the shark" is a phrase coined on a Web site about TV shows; it’s a moment when a good TV show goes bad. It takes its name from an episode of "Happy Days" where Fonzie, wearing swim trunks and his trademark motorcycle jacket, jumped over a pool of sharks on water-skis.Wagners Weblog at Information…

  • Experience

    If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.Advice columnist Abigail Van Buren, known to millions as ‘Dear Abby’

  • Fear

    I must not fear.  Fear is the mind-killer.  Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.  I will face my fear.  I will permit it to pass over me and through me.  And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.  Where the fear has gone there will…

  • Wisdom

    By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.Confucius

  • Fear

    The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision.  That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine.  When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead.Gen. George S. Patton

  • Honor Roll

    Daniel made the "A" honor roll in his first semester at Highland Park Sr. High.  At dinner to celebrate I got the following fortune cookie: "Youth is a gift of nature.  Middle age is a work of art."  I am definately feeling middle-aged with a son who will be fifteen on March 6th.  We can’t…

  • Lifelong learning

    You can never learn less; you can only learn more.Buckminster Fuller