Pushing Snow Weekend

 "Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."- Friedrich Nietzsche

The Laughter of Wolves

 "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life:  'The Lord of the Rings', and 'Atlas Shrugged'.  One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.  The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers

February - Calm before the storm

"The purpose of life is not to be happy.  It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you lived." - Ralph Waldo Emerson