Today's Quote

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein
Quotes from Da Vinci's Muse
September 2010
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three little words

“You have cancer”.
Few words will knock you on your ass faster than those.  Just 2 days after my 52nd birthday, I got this belated “present”.  I’d already had surgery to remove the right half of my thyroid and after 2 weeks of anxious waiting, I got the call.  Now, I would have the other half [...]

brand new day

Back in the ’70s (yes, I was alive then), I watched the made-for-TV movie Brian’s Song which told the story of two Chicago Bears’ football players, Gale Sayers and the late Brian Piccolo and was based upon  Sayers’ autobiography, I Am Third. I was so touched by the depiction of the friendship of these two [...]