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“If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn’t be a human being, you’d be a game show host. — American journalist Gabriel Heatter (1890-1972) If you answered …

At home in Hazzard

“Breaker One, Breaker One, I might be crazy, but I ain’t dumb! Craaazy Cooter comin’ at ya! Ya’ll home on the Hazzard net? Come on.” — American actor, politician, …

That magic touch

“Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don’t have any surface noise. I said, ‘Listen, mate, life has surface noise.’” — …

Home on the (free) range

“Growing up in the ‘60s and the ‘70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.” — American actress Sandra Bernhard (1955-) Taking a retro-nostalgic …

A penny for my thoughts (for now)

“If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere, is making a penny.” — American comedian Steven Wright (1955-) In the grand …

Twelve feet at a time

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” — American naturalist and nature essayist John Burroughs (1837-1921) Exploring the great outdoors has …

Netting a new job

“Your career is like a garden. It can hold an assortment of life’s energy that yields a bounty for you. You do not need to grow just one thing in your garden. You do not need to do just …

A wearable slice of paradise

“Wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you don’t ever come across as offensive. Nobody sees you as a threat. You see someone in a Hawaiian shirt, and you are like ‘this guy is ready to …

Splitting hairs

“We’re all born bald, baby.” — American actor Telly Savalas (1922-1994) Pay no attention to the picture. Like a lot of men, I’ve been dealing with a hairy …

Starting anew

“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.” — American writer Susan Sontag, 1933-2004 As we …

Paging Santa

“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” — American …

Christmas presents presence

“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there …

Tale of the tree

“Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.” — English actor and writer Tom Baker (1934-)   Leave it to Baker, …

Tale of the tree

“Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.” — English actor and writer Tom Baker (1934-) Leave it …

Getting at Handel on things

“Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it, I know not. God knows.” — German-British composer George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) on composing the “Hallelujah …

Retail rewind

"When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.” — American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987)   One of the great things about the emergence and growth of the internet is …

Thanks-giving

“In November, people are good to each other. They carry pies to each other’s homes and talk by crackling woodstoves, sipping mellow cider. They travel very far on a special November day …

Pausing to remember

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” …

Falling back

“An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with …

The Presidential ticket

“The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.” — American businessman and …

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