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One of my favorite leisure activities – working on puzzles – has proven an invaluable asset in this job. The many Town initiatives I am eager to see to fruition are like a puzzle; the big picture requires all the smaller pieces to fit together.
Facebook Is Launched
February 4, 2004
“If you can’t stop thinking about someone’s update, that’s called ‘status cling’.”
– Jessica Park
“All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.” – Jodi Picoult
“It’s almost bed time, so I’ll just check my email, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and watch a season of my favorite show on Netflix. Real quick.”
– coolfunnyquotes.com
“If Facebook has taught us anything, it’s that a lot of people aren’t quite ready for a spelling bee.”
– coolfunnyquotes.com
Chinese New Year
February 5
Year of the Boar
“Happy New Year! Always welcome the new morning with a new spirit, a smile on your face, love in your heart and good thoughts in your mind.”
– sayingimages.com
First Barbie Doll Sold
February 12, 1959
“If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?” – Steven Wright
“Little girls love dolls.
I recently received a fitness tracker – the kind you wear on your wrist that measures your heart rate and steps taken, and relays the data to a smartphone app.
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Entering another room, we sometimes ask, “Why did I come in here?” Usually finding an answer, we go on our way.
Bryant and May: Strange Tide by Christopher Fowler & Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
Julia and Matthew Oprica and the Observer are pictured near Balea Lake, 6,040 ft. up in the Fagarash Mountains of Picturesque Romania.
My husband and I were discussing the latest political positions taken by Alan Dershowitz, a liberal law professor whose critiques of our current president have sometimes been positive and sometimes negative.
In October, I joined town leaders from across the state and attended productive workshops at the annual Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) convention. Given the State’s financial woes, much of the focus centered on how towns can better position themselves for impending cuts to municipal aid. Hot button items included the need for collaboration, and structural changes via regionalization and within towns themselves. Consistently, the theme relative to success was the need, ultimately, for trust between partners. I am happy to say that in Suffield, we have such trusted partners in both our schools and neighboring towns.
National Cookie Day
December 4
“Empty?! You took all the cookies!” “They were crying to get out of the jar… Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know!”
– Charles M. Schulz
“Early bird gets the worm. But cookie taste better than worm.