General Musings
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Huntsville, Alabama
I’m going to Huntsville! Yup. For five wonderful days. Umm Why am I going to Huntsville you ask? Well, let me tell you… I’m going to Huntsville to write. I have made a decision to write more, and you can’t write more without writing. So I’m trying to figure out just how I can create… Continue reading
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To Infinity… And Beyond!
“It calls back a time when there were flowers all over the Earth… and there were valleys. And there were plains of tall green grass that you could lie down in – you could go to sleep in. And there were blue skies, and there was fresh air… and there were things growing all over… Continue reading
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The Franklin Planner: You’re A1 baby, A1.
“… It’s not how you feel, it’s how you look. And you look marvelous.” (Fernando) Billy Crystal I recall working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, long before gmail, and outlook on the web; and phones were anything but smart. How in the world did any of us know where to be, when this meeting was,… Continue reading
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To Be Or Not To Be
“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson “On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude… Continue reading
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Fire meet Iron, Iron I’d like to introduce you to Fire, you can join your friends there.
“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’ t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life… Continue reading
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Getting Organized
“Two minutes, get your sh*t together.” – George Carlin (on what if there were a two minute warning in life.) I have so many aspects to my life, and only a portion of them are organized. My desk is a mess, my house is a mess, and although I do tend to get things done,… Continue reading
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For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was” – Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children “And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were.” – Rainer Maria Rilke “We all want… Continue reading
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Message In A Bottle
“…Take me out to the black. Tell ’em I ain’t comin’ back. Burn the land And boil the sea. You can’t take the sky from me.” – Theme song from Firefly “The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.” – Robert Heinlein “In… Continue reading
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Le voyage en France 2011: Chapitre 1
Paris is always a good idea – The movie “Sabrina” America is my country and Paris is my hometown – Gertrude Stein If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable… Continue reading
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Surviving the Rip Tides
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell “Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It… Continue reading
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