“The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, don’t ask them what they believe,
just observe what they do.”

Ashley Montagu
1905-1999




In honor of Random Acts of Kindness Week (11th-17th) I'm having my very own give-away. Leave a comment between now and Sunday, and one of my kids will randomly pick a name and we will send you some goodies. I have no idea what we will send, just be warned that I'm letting my kids decide and my kids are wierd. They are cute as all get out, but don't be mad at me if there is no rhyme or reason to what you recieve. Just know that I've already said no to a pair of used flip flops.


*I swiped the quote from Out on a Limb

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

--Jorge Luis Borges

Booking Through Thursday was easy this week. "No"

Most barriers to your success are man-made. And most often, you're the man who made them.

- Frank Tyger

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

~ Groucho Marx

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"

Inspiration is wonderfull when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of time.... The wait is simply too long.
--Leonard Bernstein

Wisdom from a Starbucks cup. Who knew?

"For all those parents who wonder, How do I get my kids to read?-
here's a simple, earthshaking notion: give them a book. For gosh sakes, give them a couple of books. --James Patterson


Patterson is one of my favorite authors. His novels are very much "can't put down because I need to know what happens next." Sometimes can get a bit graffic, but nothing too crazy. My sister, my husband and myself were all surprised to discover he was white, because he wrote the character of Alex Cross so real.