I am only one,
But I am still one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do
The something that I can do.

-Edward Everett Hale

i got my passport!!!

yippeee!!!

one month and counting...

Lilacs make me happy. I remember as a child, laying on my mom's bed on Saunday afternoons with the window open and smelling the lilacs as the breeze was blowing the flowery aroma all through our house. Those were the good ol' days filled with nothing but meeting at the trees and peanut butter jelly sandwiches cut in 4 triangles. Ok, so the ( Read more... )

Salsa dancing on St. Patrick's day?

Makes sense to me....but now it's PAPER TIME!!!

Dear God ( Read more... )

I spent the past week or so in David, Kentucky, an old coal mining town in Appalachia. We did some work at an alternative high school in the area and overall it was a freakin awesome experience. We got there on Saturday night and the following Sunday the weather was gorgeous! After mass, we went to a local state park and frolicked in the woods, ( Read more... )

today i ventured to the library to search for an author/illustrator for my children's lit class. so, of course i ask the old, balding reference librarian (bless his heart) and we could find nothing. the conversation goes as follows ( Read more... )

After 20 years of watching 5 channels of television at home, my dad buckled under and got cable. Life will never be the same...

What's your favorite quote/song lyric/poem/other interesting piece of language???

Kevin thought Shanghai was in Connecticut!!! What a silly head. I think I laughed about that one for about an hour. And then I called him to laugh in his face and i woke him up (sorry ( Read more... )