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We’ve been awaiting (or dreading) their arrival, and now they are finally here. I’m not talking about the Beiber-Kardashian babies – no, I’m going to take a little bit of time to discuss the Lists feature on Twitter and how you might want to think about using (and when not to use) it. When I [...]
After days and nights of it, the laughter of the children echoing up from the foothills below began to grit on him, and he had to find out why there were so many children in the wilderness. This was supposed to be a quiet place, away from it all. Slowly and deliberately, he made [...]
It was a cool morning on board the U. S. S. Madonna, the quiet of the day broken by the revving tug engines straining the mooring ropes, pulling the gray ship into the dirty, crowded piers of Ellis Island. On this day, March 14,1911, my great-grandfather, 40-year-old Manuel Bettencourt, stared up at the Statue of [...]
It was a confluence of sensation. It began with my feet: a gut-wrenching downward movement of the submarine, and a guttural, rumbling shudder. Then my eyes and ears were brought to bear, as a massive column of salt water shot down the stairs next to me, shouts from above, and the clarion call of the [...]
What is a Mule? Today is National Mule Day, a day to celebrate an animal that science says should never have happened. Mules are the product of cross-breeding an ass (Equus Asinus) and a female horse (Equus Caballus,) two animals whose genetic disposition scientifically works against actually producing offspring. All males (Jacks) are born infertile, [...]
Each year, my family and I have made it a point to return to Sequoia National Forest, to settle in for as long as we can stand it under the enormously tall, beautiful, welcoming Giant Sequoias. We invite as many family members as are willing to hang out together, circling the campgrounds for the perfect location. [...]
In commemoration of Miss American Rose Day In thousands of beauty pageants across America, she stands there, an aura around her as she tries with all of her might not to squint under the bright, hot kleig lights causing tiny beads of sweat to form on her forehead, as she focuses on holding that perfect vasoline-covered smile, [...]
Written in commemoration of Evaluate Your Life Day… “The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one’s “own” or “real” life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.” ~ C. S. Lewis You’re home sick for the umpteenth [...]
Written in commemoration of Dictionary Day. “Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.” ~ Noah Webster The year was 1827. [...]
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway Simon Cowell. Dick Cheney. Walter Matthau. Oscar the Grouch. Burgess Meredith. Grumpy. Bill O’Reilly. Andy Rooney. And every pet cat. There are a variety of words for them: Curmudgeons, grumps, old coots, bellyachers, faultfinders, grousers, malcontents, sourpusses, soreheads, moaners [...]