Quote of the Month

The February streets, wind-washed by night, blow full of strange half-intermittent damps, bearing on wasted walks in shining sight wet snow plashed into gleams under the lamps, like golden oil from some divine machine, in an hour of thaw and stars.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“set down in some old book”

There’s nothing like reading to disabuse one of the notion that they are unique, alone in the universe, an anomaly unto themselves. Yet, at times, in the insulation of our own consciousness, we are inclined to imagine ourselves the sole inhabitants of the universe. In a way, we are the only inhabitor of our own…

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by Fictitiously Yours, Gail

Less is Actually Less: The Story of Stuff

Recently I found myself in a store aisle asking, Should I buy this canvas sign with black type on a white background stating “Do More With Less”? I was tempted. It was marked down. The lure of a deal sang its siren song. But the answer was, unsurprisingly, No. The existence of the sign is…

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by Fictitiously Yours, Gail

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