The athletes were met with success, disappointments and historic memories, but it was time to depart. For the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, it was only fiting that the willow twig would be incorporated into the ceremony as the athletes depart to their respective countries.The...
“Whenever he heard a song on the radio, it only served tobring backmemories of his father and he became melancholic.” Verb ▲ To welcome back or reaccept someone (or something) “She apologized that he was not yet his old self and said she hoped that Altonan would be able to figure...
Today’s simmered a minimum of six hours and, paired with a cheap bottle of wine from the local Corbieres appellation, created an indelible meal, invoking memories of when I could eat like this regularly. The next morning, after a breakfast that lasted longer than planned, we launched into ...
__ __It's obvious that we record our lives to keep our memories from fading, but with such__widespread use of camera phones and new devices like the Narrative Clip that automatically takes a picture every 30 second--how much is too much? Are we taking too many pictures?
And he'd be up there going at it for hours at a time. It just wasn't normal. I mean, I knew something was definitely different in that aspect." Most of the players who remember Hodne minimize the significance of their memories of...
That you survived is a consolation, but it doesn’t heal the wound, doesn’t erase the pain, doesn’t take back the years taken, the deeds done, or the memories burned into your being that you cannot shake. It does not make up for the fact that this is not how it was supposed to...
These two chemicals may help strengthen memories by linking brain cells, the researchers suspect.The best way to lock up the new information is . A. to get off the couch soon after their learning B. to do sports for four hours and work up a sweat C. to see some nature videos on a ...
My husband and I can’t ride down that long beach road without feeling a wave of nostalgia or twinge of homesickness for the beach of our childhood and the memories we made there later with our own children. Children grow up and move away, as Bill and I did. Over a period of twenty...
I have released myself any guilt I have had over it, knowing I would do this one big year-in-review post that somehow makes up for it all. Going through all of our personal photos from the past year (about 7500) was really fun and brought back so many good stories and memories. ...
I lived in Santiago, Chile until the age of 5, and though I have very few memories of it, something of the drama of the Andes rising up incredibly next to the city must have stayed with me. Mountains, especially near cities, seem to me animate, protecting beings. Sometimes, when a ...