Traditionally one reads a sentence, then a paragraph, chapter, section all the way up to book/magazine/tome and so on. But does one necessarily have to read items from cover-to-cover? Traditional print mediums such as print newspapers or magazines are finite. When you...
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...
“Umm…err I wanted to do this…then you see I wanted to do that…well…and what about this…but how about that….does that make any sense?” Ever have those moments when you know what you want to say (or at least think you know what you want to say) but you just can’t get...
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...
Once upon a time there was an elementary school teacher who bade her young students to clean the schoolyard of litter at the conclusion of the school’s springtime carnival. Some students were ready to grab garbage bags and run around the schoolyard haphazardly to...
Here are ten things that would be really annoying if they did not stay in order: Number 10. Numbers on the face of a clock (“It’s quarter to seven…no nine…no three…”) Number 9. Months of the year (“April, October, July, December”) Number 8. Clothing sizes at the store...
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...