The Writer's Almanac" to begin the day and other literature

Thanks to our cousin Enid we are now reading "The Writer's Almanac" each day.  What a delight! It is available to all on the web and one can even have it sent daily to one's email, one of the blessings to look forward to while one shifts through SPAM.

Sean O'Casey: "All the world's a stage, and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."

Our former B&B guest and since friend, Danielle Ofri is having her first book re-released, "Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue".  Please tell a friend and suggest it to your book club.

The other day I was reading the blog of a nineteen year old young woman who cycled from Durango to Washington DC last September.  Lucy used a quote from Ernest Hemingway and it needs to be repeated here. "It is by riding a biccle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.  Thus yu remember them as they atuall are, while in a motor car only a high hill impreses you, and you have no such accurate rememberance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."

There are least two other cros country bicycle rides scheduled for this year, one is to Re-energize America ( alternative energy) and another is by and for Veterans, see: Tyler E. Boudreau's  biography of the Iraq war "Packing Inferno".