Daily Tidbit109

“We spend the first 12 months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 years teaching them to sit down and shut up.”   ~ Phyllis...

Weekly Rumination16

TRAD LIFE: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR   This week, I’m ruminating about misplaced nostalgia. I’ve always had a hankering for the simple life. A life less complicated, where there’s fresh air, ruddy-cheeked children, dogs, and happy sheep and...

Daily Tidbit108

There are three questions I ask myself each morning as I wake: “Am I dreaming?” “Am I dead?” “Where are my fingers and toes?” That’s why I set the alarm for 4:00, so that I can get up and at ’em by 8:30.   ~ Emery...

Daily Tidbit107

“Midway upon the journey of our life…I cannot well repeat how there I entered.”   ~ Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno – Canto...

Daily Tidbit106

Now that I live in the Wasatch Back, my favorite new catchphrase is, “Rear of the Wasatch.” It’s so versatile. “What in the rear of the Wasatch?” “Go stick it up your rear of the Wasatch!” “Oooh, there goes a fine rear...