Read because you love to, not because you have to - James Pattterson (via 12/16/2007 Parade)

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way..." - Robert Frost

Expect nothing Live frugally on surprise. - Alice Walker

I recently picked up a book (Ocenas Apart) by Karen Kingsbury from the library. This will be the first book I've read by her so I thought I would look online and find out more about her. I came across this clip:

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mark Twain has always been one of my favorite authors.


Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. - Mark Twain

I just read via Associated Press that one of our family's favorite authors has Alzheimers. I'm stunned. Here is a bit of the article. The complete article can be found at http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jn-hZq9tP7kjMe8YmykU7ovv39NQD8TG495G0

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER – 3 hours ago

LONDON (AP) — Best-selling fantasy author Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, he said in a message posted to his illustrator's Web site.

In a brief note to fans entitled "An Embuggerance," Pratchett, 59, said he was taking the news "fairly philosophically" and "possibly with a mild optimism."

"I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news," he wrote on the Web site of Paul Kidby, who has illustrated many of his books.

Pratchett is best known for his Discworld series, which explores the residents of very flat, very weird and almost invariably hilarious planet dominated by the sprawling, chaotic city of Ankh-Morpork. Pratchett wrote his first Discworld novel, "The Color of Magic," in 1983, and 35 more books followed, many of which topped the best seller charts.