Knowledge
October 30, 2010
“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.”
- Denis Diderot, French philosopher (1713-1784)
Habits
October 28, 2010
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
-John Dryden
Patience
October 27, 2010
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties and obstacles vanish.”
- John Quincy Adams
SMALL
October 26, 2010
“Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”
-Albert Einstein
Overcome
October 25, 2010
“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as heck we should never teach.”
-Maya Angelou
Meeting Paul Rodriguez
October 24, 2010
Meeting Paul Rodriguez 1992
I’ve met Paul Rodriguez twice. Both times he was quite humble and not quite the character he shows off on stage, on the silver screen or even on live T.V.
What a relief!
America’s JIM
Group Booksigning
October 24, 2010
Free Holiday bookmarks, pocket tokens and Mexican Fortune Cookies, while supplies last
I’ll be there from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Active faith
October 24, 2010
“Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.”
- Edith Hamilton
Isaac Moses
October 23, 2010
From TEXAS IN OTHER DAYS:
Isaac Moses was my great-great-great grandmother’s paternal grandfather. His son John Moses came to Texas in 1847. He was born at Hopewell Plantation in South Carolina. He joined John Sutton’s company of Texas Rangers. Under the pseudonym Sesom, Moses wrote a series of columns for the San Antonio Express News from 1887 to 1890.
Author Lillie Ammann
October 23, 2010
“Lillie Ammann has been a member of All Saints for nearly 15 years and the parish webmaster
for 12 years. As a freelance writer and editor, she worked with all participating authors to edit
and prepare their books for publication. Dream or Destiny is a romantic mystery novel selected
by a reviewer as a favorite Christian book read during 2008—on a list that included two CS
Lewis titles. From the back cover: Marilee Anderson dreams about a murder and wakes to find
it really happened. She and David Nichols, the victim’s brother, become the prime suspects.
Though they have their secrets and aren’t sure they can trust each other, Marilee and David
team up to find the killer. Website: www.lillieammann.com”
Thanks to Lillie Ammann my dream of self-publishing my story came to pass. It all started when the Express-News published one of my grandmother’s poems. The columnist responsible for the poetry section referred me to Lillie. I recall my first telephone conversation with Lillie, she made my dream seem possible.
Lillie was with me through the entire process and was at my first booksigning last June. I’m excited to join her and several other authors Saturday October 30th for a group booksigning. I hope you can join us too.
