“Broken cookies don’t have calories.” -Unknown- journal entry: Collections. Most of us didn’t start out thinking we were collecting. I have several things that I have always been drawn to throughout my life. Like cookie cutters. Over the years, one here and one there . . . I have …
“In the childhood memories of every good cook there’s a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom.” -Barbara Costikyan- journal entry: Grandmothers often take for granted that younger people know what their grandmother’s knew. That is because grandmothers have the mistaken impression that everything they taught …
“It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so, a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit rather than a portrait of his face.” -Robert Louis Stevenson- journal entry: I usually don’t argue …
“A half-baked idea is okay as long as it is in the oven.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: If I had kept every idea I ever clipped out of a magazine or saw in the newspaper or heard about through the grapevine or had on my own . . . I …
” A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” -Walt Whitman- journal entry: Just when I have given up all hope that summer will come again . . . it does. With it comes the temptation to buy too many flowers. Flowers to plant. Flowers …
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan and follow through.” -Eleanor Roosevelt- journal entry: That is true of organizing. Nothing makes me crazier than wanting to use something I know I have and not being able to find it. I always thought that when my …
