What does Gladys want from the future?

Love.

The Way I See It #36

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos.

-Alice Randall, Novelist, The Wind Done Gone, and fist black woman to write a No.1 country song.

From Starbucks

The Way I See It #294

Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful.

- Renford Reese, Ph.D. Author, professor and founder of the Colorful Flags Program at Cal Poly Pomoma University.

From Starbucks

The Way I See It #223

The greatest difficulty of travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

- Alain de Botton, Author of The Consolations of Philosophy and the Architecture of Happiness.

What I am reading now...

Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

(I'm still writing the reviews...)

Miss, Pakwan nga...

Actually it is supposed to be a Melon.

"Amoy Melon", not "Melon Amoy"

Warning: Child-proof your lesson plans #1

Me: On the square with a picture of a bear, draw pictures of things that bears eat. It must start with the letter B.

1st Grader Girl: I know! Berries!

Me: That's right! Who else knows what bears eat? Remember it has to start with a letter B!

1st Grader: Oh I know! Boy!