Archives for February 2013

The Muse Has A Date

Hi, Betsy Oh hey!  Hi, Muse!  How are you? Fine.  Um.  Nice to see you. You seem a little uncomfortable, Muse.  What’s up? I have to, um, tell you something. Oh.  Well, go ahead. I’m, well.  I’m, um, seeing Coffee. You’re…what? I’m seeing Coffee.  We’re kind of, you know, dating. You’re dating Coffee?  I thought […]

Wisdom from Abe

Okay, I’ll admit it. I’ve always had a thing for Honest Abe Lincoln. So today I thought I would celebrate his birthday with his own words. By turns insightful, thought-provoking, and humorous, you just can’t beat a good quote from Abraham Lincoln.   Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak […]

Silence Is Golden

Many people are uncomfortable with silence.  I suppose I have to include myself in that group. I don’t watch television, but I usually have either music or an audio book playing on my iPod as I work at my job or putter around the house. That’s great if I’m trying to entertain myself or focus […]

The Best Laid Schemes

  I planned on writing a blog post today that was overwhelming and heart-wrenching in intensity and grandeur.  Then I was hit with… THE HEAD COLD OF THE CENTURY!!! And thus could write nothing at all since my head is full of…stuff and I have not managed to roll off my sofa for days. As Robert […]

Interview With A Groundhog

As you may know, on Groundhog’s Day our esteemed weather forecaster Punxsutawney Phil did NOT see his shadow and so predicts an early spring.When I heard this news, the thermometer at the Palatial Horvath Estate had not yet topped twenty degrees.  I wondered if perhaps Phil was insane.  I wondered if I’d misheard and/or misunderstood.Then I […]