Online Journal Entry #17

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow. Sara Coleridge

Are you enjoying your impromptu Winter Break?! Have you been out in the snow? Do you remember the best Snow Day you've ever spent? My wild ones spent a great morning outside playing, having snowball fights, and making snow angels. I went out long enough to take some pictures, then came in and made some hot chocolate!! How about you?

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin

Online Journal Entry 16

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh

So, on Inauguration Day (or in the week that follows), tell me: What do you think makes a good leader? Are these qualities that you possess? Or qualities you would like to develop?

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Online Journal Entry 15

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. --Henry David Thoreau


Have you seen the movie The Bucket List? Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman portray two men who make a list of things they want to do before they "kick the bucket." What things would you like to accomplish in your life? Any adventures you'd like to take? Places you want to see? A mystery you'd like to solve? What would be on your "bucket list?"


In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. -- Sid Caesar

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. -- Steven Coallier

Online Journal Entry 14

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Happy New Year!! I hope you all had a wonderful break and are now ready to start a fresh new year. Are you making any resolutions? How would you like to improve yourself throughout the next year? What exciting things do you hope to accomplish this year? Here is your opportunity to chooose a course. Good luck! :)

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.~F.M. Knowles