Today's Quote

No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.
Anna Garlin Spencer
Quotes from Da Vinci's Muse
February 2012
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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 [...]