and we will have a lot of fun!"A friend replied, "No way.It seems very (6) B to climb and only a few people are climbing it now." John wanted to take on the challenge and started walking toward the mountain.Two hours(7) B he reached the top.The people at...
These arguments have gone back and forth for thousands of years. But until recently, there hasn't been any data to help us decide either way. Recently, in my lab and other labs around the world, we've started doing ...
There is only one way to cleanly sever a cursed contract. I learned this from a frog-faced exorcist in a Yoshiwara brothel. I saw him do it, the way he had the older staff hold the arms and legs down of a troublesome customer, how he then poured the contents of the kodoku jar into...
To Be or Not to Be Okay, I know this is blasphemous, but I have such an issue with the way the universe has been set up. When I die (hopefully, no time too soon) I want to have a word or two with the Maker. In fact, I wish God had given me a choice before I was born,...
I know the intent isn’t to say that ONLY Houstonians/Texans are this way, but we all should. That should be the default. The rule. Not the exception. Aftermath. During one of our ventures outside, we noticed a car parked in the middle of the road. We drove by and it appeared to...
“I go around town, I go to the grocery store, or the coffee shop people say I want to learn ASL. I want to learn sign language. I want to take classes. So I have everyone’s number on speed dial, and I am like ‘sign language class tonight, you better do your homework,'” ...
You may be spending far too many of your present moments in efforts to win the approval of others, or in being concer ned with some disapproval that you have encountered.We all enjoy applause, compliments(恭维)and praise, and approval in itself is not unhealthy. Approval-seeking is a misle...
He wasn’t going to fool any of the city people with the way he looked and smelled right now. To make things worse, the wastewater had contaminated their clean water so he was going to have to make a trek out to the river path to truly get clean. And his mother had been the one...
I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now — (applause) — with just one more year to go. And no matter what grade you’re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could’ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer ...