You can’t catch anything unless you get your line in the water. In life, you will accomplish nothing, unless you get out there and try to do something. Yes, you may come home from a long day of fishing with nothing to show, but on other days your pail will be full and your smile will be wide.
Fish often hide in unexpected places. I often catch the biggest fish in the shade of a submerged log, or at the mouth of an underground outlet that I can’t see. A helping …

by: Terry Hernon MacDonald
You’ve gone on one or two dates with a guy, and you’re crazy about him. Now how do you keep him interested? How do you keep him coming back for more?
It’s easier than it sounds. You don’t have to be able to speak a foreign language, live in a loft in a trendy neighborhood, drive a hybrid, or be able to bolt tequila shots without flinching. You don’t even have to be particularly great looking. Or funny.
You don’t have to be anything but yourself. …

I have heard of a Japanese man who talks to water. He talks to all sorts of water. Distilled water, spring
water, polluted water drawn from some of the rivers that run through Japan’s industrial areas. And the
water responds.
It doesn’t talk back to him. It is energized and transforms. It changes.
When water freezes, it forms crystalline structures. Many of us know this from our experience with
snow flakes. We have seen the generic images of snowflakes and their geometric designs, maybe we
have even caught snowflakes on our fingertips and studied them. Dr. …

By Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
About ten years ago I decided that when people asked me what I did or who I was, I would confidently reply, “I am an artist”. No matter how I was making a living or if my status was that of a ‘starving artist’ or not, I would announce, “I am an artist”. I would proclaim what I had fantasized myself to be since I was a little girl.
I started to draw at three and four years old, in the back seat of my parents car as they …

I love a good movie as much as the next guy, if not more. But I have never idolized the movie stars in them.
Sure, I would love to date a really hot star – who wouldn’t? Well, maybe someone with a sane mind, but that’s not most of us. When it comes down to a beautiful face and a little fame, we are all probably interested. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. However, how often does the ordinary person get that chance? I could probably count the number of …