In days of yore, Opening Day of the baseball season was special, signifying that spring had come at LAST. Today, HOWEVER, Opening Day SORT of dribbles into existence, and the spiritual start of spring now BELONGS to the Masters golf TOURNAMENT, where the azaleas and magnolias and dogwood bloom.

Let a hundred FLOWERS BLOOM.

I'm not GOING to be the NEXT Colin Farrell or Orlando BLOOM.

MAYBE I'm not a good enough artist that PEOPLE just think of me. Maybe in the FUTURE, I'll bloom into something that will just make people look at me for what I am.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing EFFECTS of letting millions of VOICES bloom on the WEB.

If your HEART is a VOLCANO, how shall you expect FLOWERS to BLOOM?

As a young MOM I was kind of DESPERATE for some HAPPY family moments and I realized that they don't usually show up all on their own, you have to create them - or at the very LEAST, create an opportunity for them to bloom.

The SPORTS world is an ECHO chamber. All it takes is one QUOTE from a general MANAGER and a thousand sports columns bloom.