From the “Just In Case” Dept.

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

Just in case you have a bit of cream cheese spread of some type left over, remember that you can add a forkful or glob to a bowl of scrambled eggs before or just after it hits the pan. Adds a lot of creaminess to the eggs along with whatever flavor it was holding in readiness for crackers etc.

The classics: onion/chive or lox

I can’t imagine a cream cheese spread flavor that would be really bad in scrambled eggs can you? Maybe I don’t explore that area enough. That’s ok, I’ll stick to the classics.

PS I ain’t wasting olive cream cheese on eggs. Nope, no way, no how. That’s going in me, directly.

PPS this popped up in the random play the other night on the way home as if it knew the world needed to hear it. It’s been awhile here too so here ya go:

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Late This Afternoon

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

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A summer cold…

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

…is, like the ad said, a different animal. It’s still all the same sneezing and wheezing and hacking though. Phooey.

I stopped on the way home from work because I was frightfully close to running out of Scotties® tissues and that certainly wouldn’t do. Now I’m home and ready for a little more rest and recuperation. Darn cold.

If you need me, I’ll be the one taking a nap.

No postcards today, but I did get this:

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Knowledge and Risk

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life. — E.F. Schumacher

From a great Brainpickings essay, “What Children Can Teach Us About Risk, Failure, and Personal Growth”

along with this, from John W. Gardner:

One of the reasons why mature people are apt to learn less than young people is that they are willing to risk less. Learning is a risky business, and they do not like failure. In infancy, when the child is learning at a truly phenomenal rate — a rate he will never again achieve — he is also experiencing a shattering number of failures. Watch him. See the innumerable things he tries and fails.

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From the Quote Box

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be — because sooner or later, if you’re posing, you will forget the pose and then where are you? — Fanny Brice

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