For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.

We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live

Life.... It's better than the alternative.

Everything beautiful hurts.

Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health.

As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

All the Armes of England will not arme feare.

Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space.

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.