"Did I make some complicated thing simple today, or did I make some simple thing complicated?"
"Was it wise to spend another day trying to accomplish Thing B as a means of accomplishing Thing A?"
"What are the things in my life I most cherish, and what did I do today to cherish them?"
~~ from A Few For The Road
"Another day of being old enough. Still waiting for the knowing better to kick in."
"The hardest part of thinking young is recapturing the notion that you're indestructible."
"One thing you notice about getting older and wiser is that you get older first."
~~ from A Few For The Road
"It is said that not all who wander are lost, which has always struck me as not getting the most out of wandering."
...every year you have the same conversation with the same couple about who you both still are.
...some stranger learns more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.
...the host and hostess attempt to bring compatible people together by separating married couples.
...there is a rotation that brings married couples back together again every twenty minutes.
...you are always sorry you wrote anything on a napkin.
~~ from The Second Collection
"Will you spend your life pushing a boulder uphill so that, once uphill, you will have a boulder to sit on while regretting your life?"
"Do things while you can and while they matter to you, because neither is a permanent state of affairs."
"Life is like sailing -- you can use any wind to go in any direction."
"Life is a collection of moments you might have appreciated more if you had only known they were moments."
~~ from Short Thoughts For The Long Haul
"So maybe there's no Santa Claus, and perhaps no Easter Bunny, but that only makes Thanksgiving more special, because there really is a Grandmother."
