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  • "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." ~Mark Twain~
  • "An unexamined life is not worth living." ~Socrates~
  • "Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat." ~Mother Teresa~
  • "Cleverness is not wisdom." ~Euripides~
  • "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." ~Marilyn Monroe~
  • "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you ...
mar 5 2011 ∞
feb 20 2012 +
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  • ARROGANCE
  • CONTEMPT
  • RAGE
  • DANICA
  • DISRESPECT
  • GINGER
  • GREED
  • INTRANSIGENCE
  • LAURA
  • MEAN GIRLS
  • RAYANNE
  • REGRETS
  • RESENTMENT
  • STRESS
  • STUPIDITY
nov 18 2011 ∞
apr 22 2012 +
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  • www.ancestry.com
  • www.cnn.com/
  • www.crabtree-evelyn.com
  • www.goodreads.com
  • www.google.com/imghp
  • www.imdb.com/
  • www.listography.com
  • www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
  • www.pinterest.com/
  • www.rottentomatoes.com/
apr 20 2011 ∞
feb 6 2012 +
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  • Another Earth
  • Countdown to Zero
  • The Artist 2012
  • A Dangerous Method 2012
  • The Descendants
  • Extremely Loud
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
  • J. Edgar
  • Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2012
  • Centurion
  • Day Night Day Night
  • Dorian Gray (2011)
  • Life During Wartime
  • Of God and Generals
  • The Waiting City
  • Wild Grass
  • lost in translation
  • Sylvia
mar 10 2011 ∞
apr 22 2012 +
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  • Chicago, IL
  • Novi Ligure, Italy
  • Pozzolo Formigaro, Italy
  • Genova, Italy
  • Berwyn, IL
  • Peoria, IL
  • Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Vigo, Spain
  • Granada, Spain
  • Madrid, Spain
  • Fort McClellan, AL
  • Fort Huachuca, AZ
  • Fort Devens, MA
  • West Berlin, Germany
  • El Paso. TX
  • Mililani, HI
  • Schofield Barracks, HI
  • Wahiawa, HI
  • Colorado Springs, CO
  • Hell
mar 11 2011 ∞
jan 21 2012 +
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  • The Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson
  • Andrew Vachss: Blue Belle, Safe house, Dead and Gone, Shella, False Allegations, Blossom
  • Breath, Eyes, Memory Doubxter,
  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter
  • Desert Places, Crouch
  • Dexter by Design
  • Dexter is Delicious, Lindsay
  • Double Dexter by Lindsay
  • House of Sand and Fog
  • Keith Ablow: all of them
  • Midnight Mile by Lehane
  • Never Let Me Go
  • Purple Hibiscus *
  • Room by Emma Donoghue **
  • Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
  • The Beach
  • The Historian by Kostova
  • The Mosquito Coast
  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
mar 5 2011 ∞
feb 6 2012 +
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  • If you have to walk through somebody's heart the least you can do is take your shoes off.
  • No good deed goes unpunished.
  • People of goodness and caring can change the world one unseen, unsung, unrewarded kindness at a time.
  • Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
  • The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
  • There is quiet strength in choosing one's battles carefully.
mar 5 2011 ∞
aug 13 2011 +
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  • Paris * Amsterdam * Kauai * Maui * Athens * Maribor * Vienna * Salzburg * Graz * Berchtesgarden * Washington, DC * San Diego, CA * Juarez * Siesta Key * Detroit * Niagra Falls * Montreal * Milwaukee * NYC * Maine * Vermont * New Hampshire * Durango, CO * Denver, CO * Dothan, AL * Fort Walton Beach * Cape Cod * LA * Tucson, AZ * Dallas, TX * Rome * Milan * Venice * Ischia * Torremolinos * Barcelona * Toledo * Sevilla * Alicante * Torre Vieja * Valencia * Portofino * Geneva * Frankfurt * Iowa City * Fort Bragg * East Berlin
sep 16 2011 ∞
jan 7 2012 +
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  • Aruba
  • Bali
  • Boston
  • Destin
  • Fiji
  • Granada
  • Greece
  • Hawaii
  • Santorini
  • Scotland
  • Siesta Key
  • Turkey
  • Venice
mar 5 2011 ∞
jan 21 2012 +
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  • Tabloid
  • House
  • Drive****
  • Orphan***
  • Iron Lady--
  • Red
  • There Be Dragons **
  • The Debt **
  • Snowflower and the Secret Fan--blah
  • Sarah's Key
  • Atlas Shrugged **
  • Anonymous ***
  • whistleblower
  • Moneyball ***
  • The Oxford Murders
  • Margin Call
  • The Deer Hunters****
  • Noble House
  • Four Lions****
  • Any Human Heart
  • Inside Job
mar 5 2011 ∞
apr 22 2012 +
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  • They heard
  • You couldn't cry
  • You had known
  • You had said no
  • You had said yes
  • You had waited
  • You knew no fear
mar 5 2011 ∞
aug 13 2011 +
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  • Alice the Fairy by David Shannon
  • Bunny My Honey
  • Girl of the Limberlost
  • Guess How Much I Love you
  • It's Time to Sleep My Love by Nancy Tillman
  • "The Man in the Moon" by William Joyce ++++
  • On The Night You Were Born
  • Pat the Beastie by Henrik Drescher
  • Someday by Alison McGhee
  • Wherever You Are: My Love Will Find You by Nancy Tillman
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar
nov 3 2011 ∞
jan 21 2012 +
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  • Ange Ou Demon
  • Boston
  • Compassion
  • Courage
  • Email
  • Emma & Cassie
  • Kathy
  • Key lime pie
  • Kitties
  • Lemon drop martinis
  • Musical greeting cards
  • My boys
  • Nantucket Briar
  • Sam & Sophie
  • Sense of humor
  • Siesta Key
  • Sun dried tomatoes
  • Tulips
  • Vacation days
  • Vanilla
  • White roses
mar 5 2011 ∞
jan 21 2012 +
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  • "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." ~George Carlin~
  • "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance or conscientious stupidity." ~Martin Luther King~
  • "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." ~Frank Zappa~
  • "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." ~Albert Einstein~
aug 13 2011 ∞
aug 13 2011 +
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  • Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff
  • Dan Millman "Peaceful Warrior", etc.
  • Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
  • How to Live Safe in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu
  • Living Dead Girl, by Elizabeth Scott
  • The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O'brien
  • You Are Not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier
mar 10 2011 ∞
sep 17 2011 +
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  • Adele**
  • Andrea Bocelli
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • Blood Sweat and Tears
  • Carol King
  • Celia Cruz
  • Cesaria Evora
  • Cyndi Lauper
  • Enya
  • Etta James
  • Hootie and the Blowfish
  • James Taylor
  • Jason Mraz
  • Julio Iglesias
  • Kurt Nilson
  • Maroon 5
  • Norah Jones
  • Plain White T's
  • Putumayo
  • Rod Stewart
mar 5 2011 ∞
aug 13 2011 +
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  • Motherless Mothers by Hope Edelman
  • Hand-Appliqued Quilts by Tonye Belinda Phillips
  • Betty Crocker's cooking for Two
  • Cinderlily: A Floral Fairy Tale, Ellwand and Tagg
  • Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt ***
  • Fairie-ality: The Fashion Collection from the House of Ellwand
  • Fairy Houses...Everywhere, Kane
  • Falalala Felt, Carestio
  • Getting sarted knitting socks, ann budd
  • Give us liberty
  • Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung by Robert H. Hopcke
  • Home by Design, Sarah Susanka
  • If you can dream it, you can do it by C Lowell
  • knitting circles around socks, Antje Gillingham
mar 5 2011 ∞
dec 28 2011 +
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  • books
  • copper pots
  • cats
  • earth tones
  • fountains
  • lavendar, rosemary, sage
  • persian carpets...yes, from Persia
  • plants & flowers
  • sage green
  • sunshine
  • candles
  • texture
  • wood
mar 5 2011 ∞
sep 16 2011 +
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  • Breathe
mar 5 2011 ∞
apr 22 2012 +