Author: lcarlson

Today – Check Your Batteries Day — USA and Canada

Sunday— November 6, 2016 A day set aside for checking batteries in our smoke detectors, carbon...

Many of our members stay up until 2:00 a.m. to change their clocks at exactly the right time....

A fine form of Safe Excitement. Join this, take photos, send them to BBC — and send them to us —...

A wonderful park bench in this morning’s weather forecast from Sutton Coldfield Park, a...

If you happen to be in or near London Wednesday, it makes sense (dull men like to make sense) to...

Albert Einstein
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness”

~ Albert Einstein
Edward R. Murrow
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer”

~ Edward R. Murrow
Hoagy Carmichael
"Slow motion gets you there faster"

~ Hoagy Carmichael
Marilyn Thomsen
"While it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfilment in being ordinary"

~ Marilyn Thomsen
testi 1
“We’re giving a good name to a four-letter word — dull”
testi 2
“Glitz and glam — not worth the bother”
testi 3
“We don’t try to keep up with the Joneses — who are the Joneses anyway?”
testi 4
“Time is a great invention — it’s what keeps everything from happening all at once”
Will Rogers
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there”

~ Will Rogers