This is an article I wrote as a guest post. I can only excerpt it here to prevent the web version of copyright law, which is duplicating conent. Talking with a friend on line, named Marcia, I mentioned her having a website. The flounder-syndrome kicked in. When I explained that I could add a folder [...]
A perceptive overview of the roles of the technological guru and the humble user and the latter’s helpless ignorance in the face of mystical knowledge. Appropriate that the characters are in a “spiritual” setting, aside from the historical situation.
Great spoof of the ridiculous features on new cell phones.
This video came was an email forward. I’m not fond of forwards but this is so cool. Sometimes I cook. I like potatoes. I don’t like peeling potatoes. And, in this video, you get to see Dawn Wells, Marianne from “Gilligan’s Island,” forty years later. Still cute.
The Articles in this Series: What I Know about Suicide, Part II What I Know about Suicide, Pt. 1 Kurt Cobain (1967 – 1994) Reflections of a Former Suicide Hot-Line Counselor Narcissism as a Contributor to Suicide: Madame Bovary and Sylvia Plath Two Suicidal Originators of Feminism: Virginia Woolf and Anne Sexton Two Versions of [...]
Ok, you might have received this as a forward in your email, but it’s so important, and potentially market-shaking and health-changing, that I felt the need to post the information. I’m not certain who the first person author is, but the descriptions match what I know of the study by H. J. Roberts of St. [...]
A Guest Article by Nancy Coleman Peavler who lives in Ardmore, Oklahoma. She spent the first half of her working career as a high school math teacher in Kansas and the last half as a consultant for the Oklahoma Education Association. Synonyms: WC, comfort station, commode, facility, garderobe, gentlemen’s (women’s) room, head, john, ladies’ (men’s) [...]
I am sitting here in my sweatshirt. Grubby and disheveled. Just called a friend to find that she is as suicidal as I am. Talk about misery loving company! What the heck has happened to got-your-back friends these days? It is more of a frontal assault. In former days, or I should say my former [...]
Many people write about the history of trains and how it brings back such heartwarming memories. For many of those people, it is the whistle, along with the clack, clack of the wheels that evokes those memories. Since the sounds are inseparable from the train itself, it is the whole package about which people love [...]
I was watching a PBS special on hurricanes in the Carribbean. It showed how they start as tropical depressions off the west coast of Africa, slowly move west across the ocean picking up moisture from the warm water, and then slam the islands south of Florida and sometimes move into the southern US states. The [...]