“With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.” (This is to become my teaching slogan!)

“She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.”

“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”

“I put them in a little cigar box and I went to the brook and I said, ‘Goodbye, my little dollies. I‘ll meet you in America.‘ That was my dream.” // Anna Vacek Preparing for my much awaited trip to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty 🗽

Love that we get to study this collection of poems!

Does anyone else use pictures as bookmarks? #quitterstrips

When your purse won‘t close and there‘s the potential it has something to do with the number of books ...

Rereading one of my top three Science Fiction / Fantasy Novels! #Hyperion #LoveDanSimmons #audio

Fantastic quick read! Captivating with an ironic reality - this could be a history book in ten years. A must read for a pop culture nerd #readit

“Character Ethic as the foundation of success - things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.” #wellloved #readit

My favorite superhero! Love these shoes we made out of a duplicate comic and old kicks! #DrStrange

Jane and Mr. Bingley! It has such a simple romance leaving wanting to know more about them! #janeaustengiveaway

It‘s too difficult to choose one so I‘ll settle with a tie of Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice. I‘m taken in by the language as time periods. #janeaustengiveaway

Elizabeth Bennet has always been my favorite character! She is strong, intelligent, and I love her wit! #janeaustengiveaway

“It‘s a dangerous business going out of your door. You step onto the road, and if you don‘t keep your feet, there‘s no telling where you might be swept off to.” Cartography LOTR style

“I had been noticing that my little raccoon also carried patterns in his brain, as do the migrating birds and the honey-storing bees. I think I learned more about the orderly universe sitting in the garden picking beans than I ever did on a hard pew...”

“For a man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”

“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.”