Orchid Hunting Is A Mortal Occupation.

Libraries Are What Is Best About Us As A Society: Open, Exciting, Rich, Informative, Free, Inclusive, Engaging.

Dogs Really Are Perfect Soldiers. They Are Brave And Smart; They Can Smell Through Walls, See In The Dark, And Eat Army Rations Without Complaint.

I've Used Twitter Now And Again To Try To Figure Something Out; It's An Amazing Resource. But I Think You Have To Use It Judiciously: It's A Self-selected Group, So It's Important Not To Start Thinking Of It As The Whole World.

Places Like Hilton Head, With Water Adjacency And Nice Climates, Are In High Demand, And Land Values Are Insane. In The Case Of Hilton Head, Which Was Developed In 1970 On What Had Been A Mosquito- And Alligator-infested Swampy Barrier Island, Land Value Has Leaped From Nearly Zero To Now Unaffordable.

My Ace In The Hole As A Human Being Used To Be My Capacity For Remembering Birthdays. I Worked At It. Whenever I Made A New Friend, I Made A Point Of Finding Out His Or Her Birthday Early On, And I Would Record It In My Filofax Calendar.