Author: Ellen Lebsock

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. _Ralph Waldo Emerson recipe for success Always Take Time for 10 Things 1. take time to WORK - it is the price of success. 2. take time to THINK - it is the source of power. 3. take… Continue reading to succeed

Today has been so.o.o foggy and gray. Oh, and cold, too. The only thing I felt like doing was tweaking on the coding for "The Cottage Blog" It's nice and warm sitting here next to the register under my desk. It's way too cold to sit in the sun porch and draw or paint. Little things… Continue reading coding headaches

so.o.o here I am fourteen days into 2015 and writing the first post of the year. The best laid plans.... The first seven days of 2015 were cold (exceptionally so for our part of the world) and damp. I spent a huge amount of time sleeping off the effects of  something... ? allergy? bug? imagination ???… Continue reading twenty-fifteen so far

This week we bid farewell to the old year...finally. This week we welcome a new year; a blank page upon which to write a new story. As I've installed new calendar pages in my journal and reviewed the notes from 2014 I'm impressed by the wondrous blessing bestowed on our life. Oh, don't get me wrong—there… Continue reading get over it

"Best of wishes for your merry Christmases and your happy New Years, your long lives and your true prosperities."    _Charles Dickens Christmas Gifts to give yourself: Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. Memorize your favorite poem. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have, or loaf all you want. When you say,… Continue reading gifts from me to me