Searching for the fountain of youth

A friend, who is married with two daughters, and I discovered that we were both approached by one of our students to fill up a survey which was part of an assignment for another class and attempted to find out people's secrets for looking young. Naturally we were both flattered but at the same time laughingly admitted that we weren't particular about using age-defying products to look young. In other words, we didn't have any secret formula. After further reflection however we concluded that the secret to looking young was perhaps not being obsessed about it.

Love's labour's lost

Having not seen the mother bird show up all day today I suppose it's official: The egg in the nest outside the bedroom window here has been abandoned. The egg is still there; I can still see it at the bottom of the nest. Poor thing. How ironic that the mother bird should abandon it starting on Labor Day.