Hearty, happy, and unbreakable. This is my habitual stance: smiling, laughing, and dancing with great peace and joy.
Contained, cool, quick-witted. Independent, undaunted, suave.
I work assiduously over every endeavor to which I commit. Smiling all the while, making it look easy.… ...
It’s hard to be humble when you live in the Milky Way, part of a universe commanded into being. “Because I said so,” God would say if you asked, using every parent’s fallback refrain.
It’s important to be humane as well as human in our place in the uneasy universe. … ...
I went to a daylong literary event recently and came away with more than inspiration, knowledge, and new books.
I heard someone say that Ann Patchett’s book ‘Bel Canto’ was a happy book.
Now, perhaps, I will have the courage to read it…It was my mother’s nightstand book before a stroke sent her to a rehab facility for 5 months, and she never read again.… ...
Greetings in America, a land of congeniality. In other parts of our country not blessed by irrepressible sunshine, people converse about weather. I’ve shared the jaw-dropping, weather-related comments of some of our visitors from Elsewhere in America in another post. They left us aghast.… ...
My friends and family have often heard me say: “In my next life I’m going to have thick hair and a tan.”
I am revising that wishful thinking in favor of having a thick skin. It would have helped me more in this one.… ...
