Monthly Archives: May 2025

A lovely poem by Rainer Maria Rilke as we enjoy Spring’s fullness: Early Spring Harshness vanished. A sudden softnesshas replaced the meadows’ wintry grey.Little rivulets of water changedtheir singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earthfrom space, and country lanes … Continue reading →

“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.”   Kurt Vonnegut Kurt is more than curt when it comes to semicolons — and he’s not alone. For some reason, … Continue reading →

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” Winston Churchill “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” After sharing Winston Churchill’s wonderful quote above about success in an earlier post, I … Continue reading →