Another Quote from the Lady Detective

Mma Ramotswe smiled at her old friend. You can go through life and make new friends every year – every month practically – but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

She reached out and touched Dr. Maketsi on the arm, gently, as old friends will sometimes do when they have nothing more to say. p. 221

I am especially thankful for my friends this time of year. They help me keep my sanity during the holidays.

Worth Sharing

Been reading a bit more as my travel schedule for work has increased. This passage was one that made me stop and read it again.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith.

She would go back there, she thought, when she had worked long enough to retire. She would buy a house, or build one perhaps, and ask some of her cousins to live with her. They would grow melons on the lands an might even buy a small shop in the village; and every morning she could sit in front of her house and sniff at the wood-smoke and look forward to the day talking with her friends. How sorry she felt for white people, who couldn't do any of this, and who were always dashing around and worrying themselves over things that were going to happen anyway. What use was it having all that money if you could never sit still or just watch your cattle eating grass? None, in her view; none at all, and yet they did not know it. Every so often you met a white person who understood, who realized how things really were; but these people are few and far between and the other white people often treated them with suspicion.

Today's Pet Peeve

Because everyday deserves a pet peeve....

If I send you an email and sign it with my name and then you reply, which salutation would you choose:

a) Hi Sara,
b) Hi Sarah,

Correct answer is B. My name has an H at the end. If you send me an email (to my work address, and you also work for the same company), you'll see my name spelled out in the address line and you may have noticed it in my email to you.