Hello, friends. I've been thinking this week about life's important, meaningful, and really unglamorous lessons. Specifically, I've been thinking about that Thomas Edison quotation: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Or, as John Ruskin put it nearly fifty years earlier, "I know of no genius but the genius of hard work." This all came to mind because at … [Read more...]
Scenes from a suburban adolescence
Hello, friends. Yesterday, I read Amusingly Horrible Things Moms Have Said at The Hairpin. It's fairly amusing; certainly not the best thing I've read on the internet, but it must have stirred something in my Brain Soup, because early this morning, I remembered two things I've not thought of in many, many years: 1. From age 14 to 18, every time I went to the corner store (only a couple of times … [Read more...]