The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. – Douglas Adams There are two types of people who fly with Delta: those who couldn’t find a cheaper flight with another airline, and masochists. On the night before my flight to Austin, Texas for social psychology’s annual conference, I,…
In the end, no matter how famous you are, how much wealth you’ve accumulated, the vitamins you’ve taken, the exercises you’ve done, you’re bound to die.
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. — Patrick Young Isn’t snow beautiful? The graceful tumble of those flakes. The powdering of the ground, every dimple in the road, every lonely branch, fleeced in the serenity…
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home…The aggregate of our joy and suffering… every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,”…
It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting. — Tom Stoppard It’s that time of year again where I have to select a particular stranger based on appearance, learn what I can about his or her personal characteristics, then “fill in their bubble,” if you know what I mean. Unfortunately, this isn’t my online…
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. — Carl Reiner A frozen tundra, a snowy whisper: I cross the arctic just in slippers. Goosebumps, shivers, icy feel, replaced my chest with frozen steel. My breath is foggy, fingers numb; warmth, I fear, will never come The…