In American English, the phrase “make time” represents either planning ahead and budgeting time for a future activity or event and/or canceling or rescheduling previous engagements. The phrase can also represent the need to plan for something important or something...
New Year’s resolutions are traditionally reserved for, well, the first of the New Year…a time of new beginnings and that dizzying, limbo-like period of relaxation, and recuperation, with the additional air of calm after the holiday storm. It’s a time to “get down to...
We all know that Halloween is the ultimate dress-up day. What can be truly, downright scary (well, perhaps not “scary scary” as in a scary movie, but more, err, enlightening? Eye opening?), is when you make the...
There’s a hidden story behind all of your belongings; a larger reflection of the world at large and that great big circle of life. Have you ever thought that your belongings go through a life cycle of their very own? Birth, life, death. All of your belongings fall on...
Recently there’s been a trend in small living spaces, particularly houses or apartments that take up minuscule amounts of square feet. Over the past few years I’ve read several news articles and watched videos featuring living spaces with incredible feats of interior...
I’ve always been a fan of books, movies and TV shows that involve the concept of time travel. Off the top of my head I can think of the following: “A Christmas Carol,” “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” “The Time Machine,” “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” “Back...
Time management requires the ability to mark the passage of time. Our ancestors marked the passage of time with sundials and hourglasses. Nowadays we keep time mostly with digital clocks and to a lesser extent analog clocks (those with a “face”). Today’s post includes...