The Crying of the Elephants
The herds had been away for one and a half years, till that fateful Sunday, when they came marching back. How did they know that their human friend was gone so suddenly?
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May 25, 2012
Losing My Mother
I got off the bus and slowly walked across the street on route to the hospital. It was a cold, dreary evening and snow was everywhere and my mother was dead.
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May 25, 2012
A Grain of Salt in the Sahara
We’ve been torturing each other over religious doctrines and gods, skin colors and political opinions. Just think about it, we’ve even been killing each other over love!
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May 18, 2012
Gay Myths Busted
In fact, the same study found that gay couples tend to be better at resolving conflict and encouraging positive emotions.
May 3, 2012
9 Reasons Angry Bosses Should Hold Their Tongues
When you regularly, and especially publicly, show anger to your staff, here are nine extremely counter-productive things you’re also doing:
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May 2, 2012
The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget
But none touched me more than a woman I picked up late one August night.
May 1, 2012
Listen To The Songbird
And after a fashion it became comfortable, perhaps too comfortable. A free creature simply adapted to the circumstances and ultimately the captivity.
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April 26, 2012
The Cougar Phenomenon: Sex, Gender, and Love
By Alyssa Hart Cougars & Cubs! Provocative articles have drawn attention to the cougar-cub phenomenon in recent years. Discussions invariably focus on the sexual dimension of the relationships and jokingly -- sometimes unflatteringly -- portray cougars as older women who “prey” upon younger men, or cubs. These descriptions, however,…
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April 25, 2012
To My 7th Grade Self…
Maybe there's something to this. Last week, I did a bit of "time-traveling". Almost simultaneously, there was a powerful video released called "To My 7th Grade Self". Brilliant idea! If only we could. Our collective minds were in the same place. Telling my 7th grade self to get it together and…
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April 24, 2012
Slow Food Movement
No, a fast food society will inevitably fail. It’s an absolute certainty that any society that bases its nutritional and food security on a dancing clown with red hair to match his shoes, accompanied by an assortment of other indoctrinal characters based on a 1960s bad acid trip, will destroy itself on the sheer weight—becoming too big to succeed.
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April 22, 2012