Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

A baby's hands, like rosebuds furled
Whence yet no leaf expands,
Ope if you touch, though close upcurled,
A baby's hands.
Then, fast as warriors grip their brands
When battle's bolt is hurled,
They close, clenched hard like tightening bands.
No rosebuds yet by dawn impearled
Match, even in loveliest lands,
The sweetest flowers in all the world...
A baby's hands.
~Swinburne

I meant to do my work today
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,
And a butterfly flitted across the field,
And all the leaves were calling me.
And the wind went sighing over the land,
Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And a rainbow held out its shining hand..
So what could I do but laugh and go?
-Richard le Gallienne-

1. To be able to eat a whole candy bar by herself, and drink glass of Coke without any "floaters"
2. To have my 14 year old answer a question without rolling her eyes in that "Why is this person my mother?" way.
3. Five pounds of chocolate that won't add twenty.
4. A shower, without a child peeking through the curtain with a "Hiya, Mom" just as I put razor to my ankle.
5. A full-time cleaning person, who looks like Brad Pitt!
6. For my teenager to announce, "Hey, Mom! I got a full scholarship and a job all in the same day!"
7. A grocery store that doesn't have candy/gum/cheap toys displayed at the checkout line.
8. To have a family meal without a discussion about bodily secretions.
9. To be able to sit down on a plane with my toddlers and not have some pencil-neck-yuppie moan, "Ohhh, nooo! Why me?"
10. Four words: Fisher Price Play Prison!
    -Found on the Net

Join the Controversy:

Five reasons to believe computers are female:

• No one but the Creator understands their internal logic.
• The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
• The message "Bad command or file name" is about as informative as, "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you".
• Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
• As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

However, another group of computer scientists (all female) think that computers should be referred to as if they were male.
Their reasons follow:

Five reasons to believe computers are male:

• They have a lot of data, but are still clueless.
• They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they are the problem.
• As soon as you commit to one you realize that, if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model.
• In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
• Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the night.