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Tis the season to... Live Within Your Means

It's somewhat ironic that I would blog this from my local shopping mall during the holiday season. This is the first year I can remember having a set budget for holiday gift giving.

Guide to Living in Northern Northern Virginia

Moving to Northern Northern Virginia is pretty scary if you came from a smaller city or from a rural area. It took some adjustment to get used to the sometimes insane pace of life. Honestly it took three years before we really felt like this was home. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.

Timeless Love

"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."

— Will Durant

Productivity

"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor."

— Ulysses S. Grant

"It's not so much how busy you are, but why are you busy? The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted."

— Mary O'Connor

Self Determination

“It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Wisdom

Proverbs 12:10,15
"A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."
"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise."

— God, through his prophet and servant, King Solomon of Israel (KJB)

“Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”

— Joseph Conrad

Hurricane Ivan

Hurricane Ivan

Satellite picture of Hurricane Ivan over Gulf Shores, AL/Pensacola, FL on Thursday, September 15, 2004 just before landfall.

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