(The boys) were really flaky. We had some boys who performed worse than they have all year long. This is read more

(The boys) were really flaky. We had some boys who performed worse than they have all year long. This is a home meet, and you're supposed to have some sort of pride at a home meet. You are supposed to stand tall, and we were not standing tall today.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be, read more

If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be, they will come back again and again their whole life. We've generated a lifelong reader and a lifelong library user.

Well, we started about 24 years ago demonstrating corn-husk weaving at the Boone County Conservatory and, well, one thing leads read more

Well, we started about 24 years ago demonstrating corn-husk weaving at the Boone County Conservatory and, well, one thing leads to another.

The reality is that most of us sit at home and read about the Super Bowl and the $1,000 parties, read more

The reality is that most of us sit at home and read about the Super Bowl and the $1,000 parties, and we won't have an opportunity to participate. When I look at a $400 ticket, I blanch. This allows everyday people to get involved.

In the past two days we have probably gotten at least 10 bags of clothes, toys, shoes ... it's just read more

In the past two days we have probably gotten at least 10 bags of clothes, toys, shoes ... it's just incredible.

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

O sweet September, they first breezes bring the dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, the cool fresh air whence read more

O sweet September, they first breezes bring the dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, the cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring and promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely read more

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.