Resources, quotes, tips and advice compiled by Dawn Angier.

Sizzle Sites
www.amillionlives.com
Great resource site with links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more. Read about individual lives of the famous, the infamous and the not so famous.

www.parentsoup.com
An online community where parents can discuss and learn about parenting, kids, adoption, family issues, dating, money, travel, entertainment and more from the experts and each other.

www.hotwire.com
This new site offers airline tickets from the top travel companies—with savings of up to 40%. You can view low airfares with no obligation to buy. Travelers must allow for a flexible schedule and won't know the exact airline and flight times until after the purchase of online tickets.

Our Anniversary
On our 25th anniversary, my husband took me out to dinner. Our teenage daughters said they'd have dessert waiting for us when we returned. After we got home, we saw that the dining room table was beautifully set with china, crystal and candles, and there was a note that read: "Your dessert is in the refrigerator. We are staying with friends, so go ahead and do something we wouldn't do!" "I suppose," my husband responded, "we could vacuum."

This Wondrous World
"Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on," one child observed.

Murphy's Laws of Computing

1. When computing, whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen.
2. When you get to the point where you really understand your computer, it's obsolete.
3. To err is human . . . to blame your computer for your mistakes is even more human, it is downright natural.
4. He who laughs last probably made a back-up.
   

"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time."

—Norman Ford

Snakebite
Two snakes were slithering along together in the grass. "Can I ask you a question?" the first snake says. "You and your dumb questions! What is it this time?" replied the second. "Do you know whether or not we are venomous?" asked the first snake.
"What difference should that make to us?!" said the second. "It makes all the difference in the world to me", said the first snake. "I just bit my lip!"

Little Heart of Gold
Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."