Written by Elizabeth Ely on 16 February 2010
“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier We make choices. So many choices. Some just seem to happen, almost without our knowing, and others we weigh back and forth, and back again. Some things over-thought, some not enough. Time passes and
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Written by Elizabeth Ely on 12 February 2010
It never ceases to amaze me how we never stop learning. I don’t mean just book learning, but the kind of realizations and lessons, that only time and experience can bring. It seems no matter how old we get, we can always look back and marvel at how little we actually knew before. Be it
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Written by Elizabeth Ely on 06 February 2010
Someone asked me the other day why I choose to write about both serious and silly things. A lot of blogs have a more specific focus. I guess for me, I find myself wanting the variety. I want the balance that I seek in life to be reflected in this blog. I remember a description
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Written by Elizabeth Ely on 05 February 2010
They say there are two sides to every story, or so the saying goes. Others say, and rightfully so I think, that there can be many more than two. I think there’s usually at least three. What’s that other saying? Something about the truth probably be somewhere in the middle. This is not because anyone
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Written by Elizabeth Ely on 26 January 2010
I saw a commercial today that actually made an interesting point. It spoke of the much greater frequency of the question, “What’s for dinner?” rather than, “What’s in dinner?” Change one simple little preposition and the entire meaning changes. While advertising a product I would still not consider all that healthy, it brought up a
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