March Madness

"Whit, you may have noticed that you had the dubious distinction of coming in last place in the Hines NCAA tournament pool...but the good news is that the last place finisher gets his or her $20 back -- so you actually won! (but I'm keeping the $20)." -email from my dad
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Piggies

What's in between Greek and Celtic?
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Countdown

"We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four for five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." -Paul Bowles
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Don't Wait

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Story of my life

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SAD

"Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a variation of depression that plagues normally healthy people with depressive symptoms during the winter...three out of four people who suffer from seasonal affective disorder are women." -read  more at Women's Adventure.

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Bond

"He's the suavest guy you'll ever meet, but he'll also kill you." -a co-worker describes James Bond.
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Smiles

"She just lit up the room. Blondes do that sometimes." -our admin assistant about our potential future boss. Can't say I disagree with that :)
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A Mess

"If you organize chaos, you organize as much as you can to show that it's chaos. It's the way I do it. To pretend it's not chaotic is a lie." -Irwin Shaw
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Aware

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use." -Emily Post
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Do It Later

"Being a procrastinator isn't as bad as being, say, a serial killer." -interesting read from the WSJ about how to be a better procrastinator.
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Well

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Little Swimmers

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Undone

"I was struck (lightly) the other day by the following wonder: if lawyers become disbarred, and priests unfrocked, how might people in other paths of life be read out of their profession or calling? It occurred to me then that electricians get delighted, and musicians possibly denoted. If these assumptions are correct, surely it follows that cowboys must be deranged, that models are deposed, and judges are obviously distorted." -great letter by Marian Forer
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Vocab Lesson

"Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut." -from "25 Handy Words That Simply Don't Exist in the English Language." Read the whole list here.
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Early Birds

"Seizing your mornings is the equivalent of that sound financial advice to pay yourself before you pay your bills. If you wait until the end of the month to save what you have left, there will be nothing left over. Likewise, if you wait until the end of the day to do meaningful but not urgent things like exercise, pray, read, ponder how to advance your career or grow your organization, or truly give your family your best, it probably won't happen." -Laura Vanderkam, in What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast.
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On the Bright Side

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Moving Along

"So it goes. The wheel turns, generation after generation, around and around. We ride for a little while, get off and somebody else gets on. Over and over, again and again." -"Seventy-Two is Not Thirty-Five by David Budbill
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Top Notch

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour." -Thoreau
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What's Left

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
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