“Work is hard.  Distractions are plentiful.  And time is short.”  ―  Adam Hochschild

3 weeks ago

It is Spring Break time already!  For not being in the classroom, the days sure are flying by as if I…

“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”  ―  Arthur Ashe

1 month ago

This past weekend our little family piled in the car for my first indie author fair.  I did not want to…

“It’s better to be prepared than to get ready.”  ―  Will Smith

2 months ago

There’s a bit of a semantical game with that quote.  I don’t particularly like it, but it’s useful enough and applicable…

“Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.”  ― Marvin Minsky

2 months ago

I’ve been meaning to do an AI/writing post and hadn’t gotten around it, but, since AI has been in the…

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”  ― Washington Irving

3 months ago

I’ve been a baker for a long time.  Nothing super fancy or particularly aesthetically pleasing, but cookies and cakes and tasty…

“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”  ― Rainer Maria Rilke

3 months ago

Happy 2025!  Crazy!  December had so much going on, I decided to take it off from the blog and focus on the…

“God gave us memories so we may have roses in December.”  —  James M. Barrie

5 months ago

A couple of weeks ago I was in Publix after church, scoping out the bananas trying to find some that…

“Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time of optimism and fresh approaches.”  —  Gary Johnson

5 months ago

It’s November!  My favorite month!  And it’s voting day!  Or at least it is as I type this out.  By the time the mailer…

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”  —  Alexander Graham Bell

6 months ago

Usually when I write a post here the topic is something that I have been thinking on recently.  So, two weeks…