“No good deed goes unpunished.” Oscar Wilde
I have to admit I have often wondered what inspired someone to come up with today’s quote, but I actually had no idea who said it.
I then discovered, to my ...
“I learn by going where I have to go.” The Waking by Theodore Roethke
As I sit in silence, I say to you this – there is no backwards.
Backwards is but an illusion, a game we play in the mind – some m...
“I don’t think I had a nap today, but I’m not sure – I may have slept through part of it.” Anonymous
Today’s article was inspired by the passing remark above that one of my older friends made to me th...
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot
In case you are still hesitating to come outside, winter is over, the longtails are back and it’s ti...
“I used to think time was a thief. But he gives before he takes. Time is a gift. Every minute. Every second.” Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
It’s strange how we constantly wrestle with...
This week at Olderhood we had the unusual experience of being contacted by a malfunctioning e-mail bot.
I say malfunctioning because, as best we can tell, the string of messages that we received were...
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change.” Frequently attributed to Albert Einstein
Continuing last week’s analysis of fishy quotes, let’s ...
Has the technology of the moment stolen your focus?
That is the question being posed by bestselling author Johann Hari in his new book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t pay Attention and How to Think Deeply...
I remember a friend from Sweden telling me that Swedish is a very difficult language for non-native speakers to learn because a correct understanding of the language depends not so much on knowing the...
