Never Give Up! Never Surrender!

In the brilliant 1999 film, Galaxy Quest, one of the oft-repeated taglines was “Never give up! Never surrender!” It’s a great tagline, especially when dealing with aliens, rock monsters and the unknown possibilities of the Omega 13. But it’s a pretty good philosophy for the rest of us to have as well. How many times [...]

Making Strides

On October 24th, I’ll be walking in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5k and I’d like your help in reaching my goal: $10 from 100 people. Here’s why: Throughout our lives, we meet and interact with a lot of people: family, friends, co-workers, acquaintances and strangers. Sometimes, if we’re lucky, we [...]

Somewhere Out There

“I could write a blog. I have thoughts.” (Amy Adams as Julie Powell in the movie version of Julie & Julia) Lately, it seems that more and more people are writing about writing and specifically, writing about blogs: Kristen has written about it twice in the last month, Erica recently explored the idea of a [...]