November 18, 2011 JMRL Blog “Boys, I realize that some of us are not going to finish this journey. Cherrie, I want you and Kermit to go on. You can get out. I will stop here.” Theodore Roosevelt on the River of Doubt
October 6, 2011 JMRL Blog Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. -Hippocrates
September 28, 2011 JMRL Blog “The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde
September 15, 2011 JMRL Blog “If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses,” she said, “he had best stop writing for them.” – Louisa May Alcott
August 18, 2011 JMRL Blog “I’m ashamed. Sometimes, Senator. Ashamed of what goes on in Mississippi.” Carlton Phelan Skeeter’s father (Pg 268)
August 9, 2011 JMRL Blog “When I competed for Afghan Star, I wanted to prove that a woman from Herat could sing,” says Tarana, adjusting her trademark stylish rectangular glasses. “Now that I have been elected to the provincial council, I will prove to people that a lady who can sing can be in politics as well.” Farida Tarana
July 22, 2011 JMRL Blog “My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
June 16, 2011 JMRL Blog “You decide for yourself when it will hurt.” — Per Petterson (Out Stealing Horses)