Cataloging life from 2005-2010

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Category Archives: Quotes

Silence in the Blogosphere

Lorelle of WordPress.com (whose site I literally stumbled upon yesterday) has brought something really powerful to my attention with her latest post. I can’t do justice to it, so I’ll let you read it yourself.
A few days before Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) in Israel, I was warned that when I heard the air raid [...]

Of Caterpillars and Surprises

Today, at work, I was cleaning up the dining room… washing tables, refilling napkin holders, throwing away stray straw wrappers and coffee cups, and gathering today’s paper from the four corners of the room and setting it back in a neat stack (for the next three old men to come in and redistribute). I just [...]

On Love and Fangirls

For those of you who are girls and about my age, I’m sure that a lot of you had a healthy obsession for a boyband when you were about… oh, eleven? Twelve? Back in the day of the Backstreet Boy or N*Sync, right? Posters on the walls, anyone? CD’s? An unhealthy urge to ogle MTV [...]

Back to my catchphrase!

Some of you know what my catchphrase is. It’s found in the Bible actually.
“Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you; do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.”
- Song of Songs 8:4
And as much as that’s my “catchphrase” and I keep it in my head as much as possible, I don’t always listen to [...]

Narnia = good movie

So, the day that Narnia came out on video, we went and saw it in the theaters. Story of my life, really… wait until something comes to the dollar theater! I don’t mind… it was really good. I mean, I thought they were going to butcher it, but they didn’t, so I was impressed.
A week [...]