What type are you?

What Type Are You?
Spending seven years researching typefaces and personalities, twenty-three academics from Pentagram created What type are you?. A four question test that analyses your character and recommends what type is perfect for you.

Short Stories

the amazingly talented Jen Altman

has a new blog called Short Stories…

she has such a magical way with words.

Happy Birthday Lincoln!

Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln! Wow...200...that is amazing! My five-year old Parker sang to you in the car today! And then he said, "He will have to celebrate in heaven, because he is really old"... So because of this special occasion...I am doing something 'real special'.

I am inviting my husband, Shaun to guest write. So here it goes...that was me...this is him.

I think that anyone who kicks it in a chair of marble is truly a fly guy.

200 years of Babe-raham Lincoln. Those ears, those eyes, that mole, it's a good thing he was tall.

This is why I wear a beard. Instant stud.

The young Grace Bedell from Westfield, NY wrote the presidential candidate suggesting that he “would be much improved in appearance, provided you would cultivate whiskers.”

“You would look a great deal better as your face is so thin,” she continued, “All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.”

He was our first beard-bearing president.

This is kinda how I wear my hair when it is short. Not only was he an ethical and political genius, he was quite en vogue.

While we're on the subject of sexy, meet General McClellan.

He was one of Lincoln's generals, and Abe loved to hang out with him. What, you don't believe me?

"Abe, pass me the butter."

(a possible quote from Mac)

Here they are again. They were buddies...


Until Abe fired him and George ran against him. Abraham destroyed him. No one remembers the loser of a presidential election. Case in point, my name is constantly misspelled and mispronounced. Oh well, in 3 years I will be eligible run for president. I figure if Barack could do it...

He truly is "money."

He saved the Union. What did you do today?

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
-Abraham Lincoln

16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

Happy Birthday, dude.

Thanks, Court.

xox

THANKS to the TWENTY!

THIS is a SHOUT OUT to all of the TWENTY CRAZIES who are following my blog!

Today, the 'girl number twenty' joined the group! YEAH!! I never thought I would be so excited!

Maybe I will give her $20.00...what do you think???

Maybe I will give her 20 donuts, or 20 cookies!

Thank you to all of my friends!!

Truly, though, I never thought 20 people would ever care to read my thoughts!

So honestly....thank you to the twenty!!!

Do you know your neighbors WELL ENOUGH?

As I was at work tonight, I started thinking about the lonely people in this world.
And I couldn't help but wonder..."do I take the time to actually get to know them"

Do I know the neighbors I have well enough to know if they needed me?

I had a patient tonight who was 78 and blind. Her body is falling apart and full of cancer. Her only daughter is in the hospital in Chicago with her sixth relapse of cancer. She has been a widow for 35 years, and she has no one. She never complained.

Then it happened...the doctor said, "Courtney, go ahead and send her home"...I asked, "Tonight???" (thinking to myself, how will this woman get home?? who is going to help her??? is she going to make it???)

When the ambulance company said it was a $1000.oo to transfer her home, she started to cry.

Yes, we searched out all of her contacts.

The only one home who could help = her next door neighbor, Violet.

"Violet will help me" she said.

Thank God for Violet! Someone who has taken the time to care.

Someone who has loved another individual!

So, yes, I sent her home in a cab.

Placed her in the wheelchair...praying the cab driver would be nice to this ill blind woman.

...And then I placed this stranger into another stranger's care. (and my heart sank)

I walked back upstairs and thought to myself...this is too sad!

It's not fair to see people without anyone, it is not fair that there is no one to protect her!

And then, I felt His love.

...And that is when I knew that my patient had the GREATEST PROTECTOR ever!

Do I imagine her sitting in her house lonely? Yes.

Do I imagine her having a hard time sorting her meds? Yes.

Do I imagine her helpless if the chest pain returns? Yes.


Should I imagine these? I don't know.

But, I do know that He has called us to be His hands and His feet!

No matter what we look like, or how old we are. We all crave to be loved!

We all want the same thing...to be loved deeply!



May we search no more! May we know that we are loved.

May we love our neighbors well enough to reach out and be the 'Violet' in their lives.

Thank you GOD...

for LOVING US!

Help us to reach out more!