“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” - Tom Lehrer For Music Saturday, Sergei Rachmaninoff play...

“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” - Laura Ingalls Wilder For Food Friday today, a Byzantine...

“Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.” ― Rick Riordan Aphrodite (Venus) was the ancient Greek goddess of love and b...

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” - T. S. Eliot   Poetry Jam this week has asked participants to: “Write a culinary poe...

“Every solution of a problem is a new problem.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Today is the National Day of Lithuania (Day of Restorat...

“Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.” - Aldous Huxley   We watched a cur...

“Experiments with a child’s paint-box led me the next morning to produce a complete outfit in oils.” – Winston Churchill   For Art Sund...

“A woman is like a tea bag - you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” - Eleanor Roosevelt   Happy International...

“Pasta doesn’t make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.” - Giada De Laurentiis   The basil in our back yard is in full growth ...

“Do you have the right to be silent in the face of evil, do you have the right not to stand witness; do you the right to let your fear sp...

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a ...

“Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.” - Victor Hugo   Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tuesday”, or “Pancake Tuesday” ar...

“A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.” - Samuel Goldwyn   Well, the 86th Academy Awards winners have been announced with: B...

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” - Auguste Renoir   Pierre-Auguste Renoir (born February 25, 1841, Limoges, France—died Decem...

“Nothing’s so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.” - Francis Beaumont   Marin Marais (31 May 1656, Paris – 15 August 1728, Paris) was a...

“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” - Lewis Grizzard   For Food Friday a tradition...

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Martin Luther King, Jr   When it came to populate the earth, an...

“The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there.” – L.P. Hartley   Poetry Jam this week is celebrating trains and trai...

“It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.” Waverley Lewis Root   Spearmint , Mentha spicata , is the birthday plant for this day.  The ...

“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into h...