Dancing Dreams

December 11th, 2012
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Pauline Clark has got it goin’ on.Today’s post is about holding on to a dream that you know is good for your soul.  Pauline Clark is my inspiration today and she is featured in the story below that I read in the New York Daily News about how Pauline’s lifetime dream of dancing with the Rockettes finally came true.
I think Pauline Clark, who is 87, has definitely heard about the idea of “use it or loose it” and has taken it to heart as a lifetime philosophy.
The idea behind “use it or loose it” is essentially this:  if
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Staying True

November 23rd, 2012
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Thought For The Day (With Thanks To The Silver Pen) www.silverpen.com Everyone should have a dream or two.  They can help motivate you and keep you moving forward. Sometimes you can have a dream for fun as in “If I ever hit the lottery, this is what I would do.”  I always say to myself that if I ever won the lottery or all of sudden inherited a lot of money, I would buy a house at the beach. Then, there are the everyday dreams you can have about your personal life or your work.  Try to be realistic and… Read More

DC’s Bucket List

May 11th, 2012
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Katherine Frey/The Washington Post Washington, DC is my home and I love it, but it is not a particularly creative city.  The nation’s capital has many beautiful monuments and museums but as a city it doesn’t go out of it’s way to nurture artistic talent even though people who live here and visit here crave public art. Instead, government is the business of this city and one would sometimes think that the only people who work here are faceless bureaucrats, politicians, and lobbyists who blab on television and telephones or stare at computers screens all day with nothing else on… Read More

Goals & Dreams

March 26th, 2012
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You are never too old to set another goal or  to dream a new dream                                                          ~ C. S. Lewis… Read More

Happy New Year!

January 1st, 2012
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We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.                       ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce Happy New Year!  The idea that 365 days stand before us, fresh and unmarked, ready to be embraced is rather daunting. As I flip through my new 2012 Metropolitan Museum of Art calendar book that my Dad gave me for Christmas, I am hesitant to write in it because I want 2012 to remain unchanged.  What will this year bring?  Will I be ready?  How… Read More