Solstice - derived from the Latin sol ("sun") and sistere ("to stand still") We are in the darkest of days. We just passed through the...

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a...

“Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.” ― Sebastian Junger This week, we observed the entrance of the...

“How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss This is my 57th December. Something to be grateful for. I almost did not make that first...

It’s funny how during Thanksgiving we’re thankful for what we already have but then we practically trample each other for stuff we don’t...

“Honestly, all crows are not ravens” ― Munia Khan Julie and I went out to the movies last week in the town we grew up in, Bethlehem PA....

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of...

“Good veterinarians talk to animals. Great veterinarians hear them talk back.” – unknown Julie and I are dog people. On readback, it...

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ― Albert Camus This Fall the leaves seem extra to me. One reason may be that the...

“Mrs. Marty Mann started her recovery in AA in 1939 (as the first woman, too, by the way – there was even sexism with regards to the...

“When you're having what you feel like is a "bad day" and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind...

I cherish a good quote and I am grateful for the bounty of quotes. The art of putting thoughts to words, preserved through time to...

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” ― Franklin D....

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ― Ernest Hemingway Trust can be a difficult thing, something I...

“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not...