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Waste not.

2008-05-08T16:48:00.000-07:00

"To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are."

-Unknown

So true.

2007-11-28T06:16:00.000-08:00

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts."

- George F. Tilton

The truth!

2007-10-26T08:56:00.001-07:00

"You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; you are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are."

- Edgar A. Guest

Amen.

2007-10-24T10:38:00.000-07:00

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

- Timothy Leary

Take care of number one.

2007-10-24T08:29:00.000-07:00

"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."

-Julius Erving

Getting even.

2007-10-24T08:06:00.000-07:00

"The only people to get even with are those who have helped you."

-Anonymous

I must be super alive.

2007-10-22T08:31:00.000-07:00

"Problems are a sign of life."

Norman Vincent Peale

Questions

2007-10-11T11:23:00.000-07:00

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

- Jim Rohn

Trying hard not to be an idiot.

2007-10-10T11:02:00.001-07:00

Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day-to-day living that wears you out.

-Anton Chekhov

What if, indeed.

2007-09-26T20:26:00.000-07:00

"What if you quit being defeated?"

Rob McCarron
(my brother)

Forgiveness, Take Two.

2007-09-26T20:24:00.000-07:00

"Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past."

-Landrum Bolling

Forgiveness

2007-09-26T20:23:00.000-07:00

"Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time."

- Sara Paddison

What do you expect?

2007-09-24T06:09:00.000-07:00

It is a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

-Somerset Maugham

Happiness.

2007-09-22T10:50:00.000-07:00

"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances."

- J. Donald Walters

A message for trouble.

2007-09-22T08:48:00.000-07:00

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

-Ann Landers

Time Management

2007-09-13T06:32:00.000-07:00

"Avoiding the phrase 'I dont have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life."

Bo Bennett

Avoid competition

2007-09-13T06:29:00.001-07:00

There are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

-Indira Gandhi

Talent

2007-06-18T20:59:00.000-07:00

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

- Leo Buscaglia

The word "harmony" has such a nice ring to it.

2007-06-18T20:57:00.000-07:00

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. "

-Thomas Merton

Hammer? Check. Nails? Check. Dreams? CHECK! CHECK!

2007-06-18T20:56:00.000-07:00

"Build a dream and the dream will build you."

- Robert Schuller

Confucius says smart things...

2007-06-18T20:55:00.000-07:00

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

-Confucius

Book Reviews!

2007-05-30T20:01:00.000-07:00

I recently received an email request from a publisher that wanted to know if I would be interested in reviewing a couple of new books that they have recently released. After reading a little bit about the books I quickly agreed knowing that my daughter would really be VERY interested in the books. She agreed to read and review each of them. She read two books from The Fairy Chronicles collection by J.H. Sweet.

Before I share her reviews (posted below) let me tell you that my daughter is an incredible reader. She has started and finished very large novels in just a matter of days. She also knows quite clearly what she likes and doesn't like and all of her friends are fans of the same types of books that she enjoys.

When we received the books in the mail my daughter was reading the first one before I finished pulling the second one out of the package. She took the first book to school to read during breaks. When she came home she asked if she would be allowed to keep the books for awhile or if we had to return them. I told her that they were ours to keep and she asked if she could share them with her friends. I agreed. I know that two or three of her classmates also read and enjoyed the books. My daughter also put in a request to her school librarian to have these books purchased for the school. She enjoyed them that much.

My daughter's reviews for the two books are below. I plan to purchase the rest of the series for her.

Marigold and the feather of hope

I liked how the author put details in the story. About Marigold and her new friends Dragonfly, Thrisle and Firefly. It always shows you where you are in the book it kind of tells you that the fairies are not as mischievous a sthe brownies. I like how it ended with lots of detail and made you want to read the next book of the series of books. I can't wait to read the next books that there are.

Dragonfly and the web of dreams

I enjoyed this one because all the same characters are back and in the beginning her mom said she didn't put one of the boots in the garden but what she didn't know was that it was really a dwarf that was pretending to be a boot in her garden. He didn't notice that her mom took out all the boot's. Also the author added a lot of details to this story like she did to the first book.

It IS a beautiful world. It is, it is, it is.

2007-05-30T17:34:00.000-07:00

"This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however we found it. We have a long way to go and we're not getting any younger. Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life than winning."

Garrison Keillor

Do you believe in magic?

2007-05-30T17:31:00.001-07:00

"I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. When I was twelve, the words was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present, and into the future. We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see out destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put in the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we’re told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wilderness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad at what they allowed to whither in themselves. After you get so far away fro it, though, you can’t really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get all weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theatre, the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why. For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm. The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks, and get crippled. It’s not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don’t know its happening until one day you feel like you’ve lost something, but you’re not sure what it is."

-Robert McCammon

Rise above the foolish child

2007-05-30T17:28:00.000-07:00

"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces."

-Og Mandino