Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.

For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.