Year: 2009

  • Good advice

    To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.Churton Collins

  • Frack eleven

    If you really want to turn it up, go two better — to twelve.

  • Food Rules

    Don’t eat egg salad from a vending machine.David A. Wilson My parents are both from Italy, and one of our family rules was that you could not leave the table unil you had fished your fruit: “Non si puo lasciare la tavola fino che hai finito la frutta.”  It was a great way to incorporate…

  • BAD 2009

    Today is Blog Action Day, and the topic this year is Climate Change.Of course I couldn’t think of anything to write, but I have noticed that there are a lot more dead trees around the City of Saint Paul in the last year; and that normally in September we get a substantial amount of rain…

  • To all my intelligent friends

    I am sending this only to my smart friends.  I could not figure it out and had to look at the answer.  See if you can figure out what these words have in common. BananaDresserGrammarPotatoReviveUnevenAssessAre you peeking or have you already given up?  Give it another try….  Look at each word carefully.  You’ll kick yourself…

  • Community Service

    One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut.  After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, “I cannot accept money from you , I’m doing community service this week.”  The florist was pleased and left the shop.  When the barber went to open his shop the next morning,…

  • Philosophy

    Philosophy is a purely personal matter.  A genuine philosopher’s credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred.  No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.Havelock Ellis