Category Archives: Twofer Tuesdays

Twofer for Tuesday – Sailing To Discovery

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.” ~ John Updike  and “What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss … Continue reading →

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Twofer Tuesday – Quotes from the Past for the Future

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.” ~ Jim Rohn  … Continue reading →

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Twofer Tuesday – Graduation Quotes

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.” ~Robert Orben  and “We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.” ~Carol … Continue reading →

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Twofer Tuesday – Dogwood Days of Spring

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

“After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.”  ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh and To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy … Continue reading →

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Twofer Tuesday – National Poetry Month

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

National Poetry Month was instituted in 1996 to foster awareness and the importance of poetry. Yay! Celebrate with these quotations: “Poetry is just the evidence of life.  If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”  ~Leonard Cohen … Continue reading →

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Twofer Tuesday – Quotes with Kindness

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” - Khalil Gibran  and “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered … Continue reading →

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Two for Tuesday – You’ve Heard of Six Flags, How about Three Flags?

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

With the temperature reaching into the 80′s today, I busied myself tidying the deck soon to be repaired from the storm last year. I found three small, torn and faded garden flags  still propped in pots of dead flowers and … Continue reading →

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Two for Tuesday – Quotations for April Fools’ Day

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” – Anatole France and “Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact … Continue reading →

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Two for Tuesday – Poetry Ponderings

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” - Carl Sandburg  and  “A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” –  Paul Valery     

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Twofer Tuesday – The Short on Short Stories

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

“Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside – some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full … Continue reading →

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