It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.