Some fringe thinkers considered the possibility of sails that could use the solar winds produced by the sun to push a craft through space. As with the rockets, there was a lot of details missing in such plans, but those who saw merit in the idea insisted it could work in principle, ...
I was completely sweating, suddenly everything became blurry in front of me and I lost conscious, fainted in the ICU. There were 4 or 5 nurses around my dad and rushed to me. They put me on a push chair, pushed me close to the machine, but couldn’t find my pulse and blood pressu...
I go away for house, I stop thinking about it, and that same night, or to the morning of the following day, the idea arises like by magic art. The creativity has, as usually it is said, of sweating and a little inspiration (is no more much that to remember what brilliant Pablo ...
celery and carrots sweating it out in the bottom of my soup pot. I turn on my Pandora and Frank Sinatra belts out, “You Make Me Feel So Young.” The smell of
All without sweating or scandal. Federer might have the fewest Slams of the Big Three, but he started this movement. He took tennis beyond the court with a game built by Leonardo da Vinci and Carl Lewis. Invention at effortless speed. People, like my mum, who didn’t care for sport, ...
Baseball is having a hot dog fresh from that metal holder that the vendor guy has been sweating in for the last five innings! It was Humphrey Bogart who once said, “a hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz,” and we’d never dare question the judgment of a man who was...
George Stevens gives us a lot of interesting things to look at, particularly the massive house belonging to Taylor and Hudson. It sits alone on the land, a monument to an ideal that Hudson’s character believes in, an ideal that drives a wedge between him and his wife. It serves a ...
I still have a lot to learn and I will continue to do so. My hope is that I gave you some food for thought. I’m not being dramatic when I say that lives are at stake. So having this bit of information now, if you see something hateful towards this community… ...
3. the return of the robins. They disappeared for a day or two, but they came back. 4. seeing a patriot getting into his car in the parking lot of my son’s condo in Williamsburg. I love the historical quirkiness of the ordinary. ...
“A nice enough guy, but not a lot between his ears,” said Jimmy. “Except a good-looking face,” said Fletcher. “And several touchdowns last season, if I remember correctly,” added the senator. “so now we know who the enemy is, let’s start working on our friends. First, you...