My books are my friends

who know how to say just the right thing when I'm feeling down, or
make me angry by addressing my issues and expecting me to work on them, or
simply stay silently by my side through the days and nights as we age together.

Don't name your kid something that has made it on the top 100 most popular baby names of the last 10 years.

Just don't.
(But pregnant women don't listen.)

That moment when

your younger sisters are watching a Disney Channel t.v. show and when the dad walks on screen the words "He's hot" tumble out of your mouth before you have time to realize you just admitted you're getting old.

Freedom is the truth.

Self-pity, self-hatred, self-consciousness, self-obsession, and selfishness are the lie.

This song will be as perfect in 100 years as it is today

For you were once a child of innocence...and I see you just the same...

Today I am grateful

that I didn't get attacked by a man with an ax,
that the children in my life weren't poisoned at the park,
that my dad has not suddenly dropped dead of a rare disease,
and that my thumb wasn't chopped off when I was using the bandsaw "like that kid's in high school was."

Oh, and that the world hasn't been destroyed by the Daleks. But that's a given.

Love, it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you...

...it will set you free. Have long loved this song. This video makes it even better.