28 5 / 2012
"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."
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26 5 / 2012
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."
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25 5 / 2012
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
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24 5 / 2012
"It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones."
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23 5 / 2012
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
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22 5 / 2012
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
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22 5 / 2012
"Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important."
28 4 / 2012
31 Republican men voted against the Violence Against Women Act in the Senate today. All 5 Republican women voted for it.
Today in sad phrases: “Voted against the Violence Against Women Act.”
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05 4 / 2012
We got a kitty this weekend. Her given name is Starry; I call her Kitty and sometimes Cat. She’s six years old.
If she can’t find you, she walks around meowing. She naps next to you and not on you. She loves being brushed and loves tummy rubs. Actually, she loves all rubs. She won’t drink from her water bowl, but will drink from any glass even if she has to dip her paw into it and lick the water off. Oh, man, I love this little kitty of mine!
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20 3 / 2012
In Focus: The First Day of Spring
Today is the vernal equinox, the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. It also marks the end of “the winter that wasn’t,” as the past several months in North America have been dubbed. It was the fourth-warmest winter in the United States since record-keeping began 117 years ago. In accord with the unusual weather, this turn of the season brings us snow in Arizona and Saudi Arabia, while conditions remain sunny and warm in America’s Northeast and Western Europe. In this collection, you’ll find scenes from around the world as a strange winter gives way to spring.
See more. [Images: AFP/Getty, Reuters, AP]
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25 2 / 2012
"The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well."
24 2 / 2012
There is finally snow here in Milwaukee that won’t disappear too quickly. It was so nice to go outside this morning and sweep off the cars (which for some reason we didn’t put into the garage last night) and get Ben’s car all heated up for his drive to work. I would have shoveled, but we have people that do it for us :) and since we have a corner property, I find I don’t get as excited about the task. So for now I get to look at the snow laden trees outside our big living room window, and drink some hot chocolate for what else is there that must get done this morning…
