"We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are risen apes." - Desmond Morris, British zoologist and writer

David and I celebrated our eighth anniversary yesterday!

"I am willing to write in my old blood that of all those who call themselves lesbian or gay, a maximum of five to 10 percent are effectively lesbian or gay. All the rest are just sexual perverts." - Belgian Cardinal Gustaaf Joos (another old man in a dress with a lot of power in the Roman Catholic Church)

The basic fact is that humanity survives through kindness, love and compassion. That human beings can develop these qualities is their real blessing." - His Holiness the Dalai Lama

I couldn't get to sleep until about 3:00 a.m. because I couldn't shut off my brain last night!

Grant Devine wants to return to politics by running for the federal Conservative (or should I say ALLIANCE) Party. He and the party deserve each other!

Have you ever felt like you want to shut your brain off for a few days, so you can have a mental holiday and function on auto pilot? That's how I feel right now. I'm finding it hard to stop ruminating and worrying about things that are bothering me.

Some people who were born on this day:


Peter Mark Roget (London, 1779)

- a physician and scientist, experimented with laughing gas, invented the log-log slide rule and, of course, wrote the first edition of "Roget's Thesaurus"


Joseph Farwell Glidden (Clarendon, New York, 1813)

- invented the barbed wire fence


A(lan) A(lexander) Milne (1882, St. John's Wood, London)

- was bitter about the fact that people remembered only his children's books
(featuring Winnie-the-Pooh)

- "When I wrote them, little thinking
All my years of pen-and-inking
Would be almost lost among
Those four trifles for the young."