PALMS DOWN - Tell a friend that you know a great trick. Put your hand palm-down on the table and balance a full glass of liquid) on the back of your hand. Bet your friend that they can’t balance a glass on both hands at once (help your friend to put them in place). As soon...
It goes well, oddly, with both /Benjamin Button/ (and contains a reference to it) and /Mr. Nobody/, not the Val Kilmer one of that title but the one with Jared Leto, from 2013. Here are a couple of places to watch /Mr. Nobody/ for free. If one doesn’t work, or they’ve...
“I’d die before I’d let you touch me!” Her repentance, if it was that, changed to pure rage. She snatched the torn sheet from him and turned abruptly toward the fence. He followed her, apparently unmoved by her attitude; placed his foot upon the lower wire and pressed it into ...
There are two places I always recommend starting your smart home, or rather, where I think you should install smart home devices — and one of them is at your doorstep. Having a smart doorbell is a real game-changer to be able to answer your door remotely, even if you're home. You ...
There are two places I always recommend starting your smart home, or rather, where I think you should install smart home devices — and one of them is at your doorstep. Having a smart doorbell is a real game-changer to be able to answer your door remotely, even if you're home. You ...
creative non-violence, war with North Korea, understanding the other with empathy, substituting a villain for a fool, how Nazis compare to BLM / Antifa / Black Panthers and others, problematic media, human cooperation, tearing down white supremacist iconography in public places, the hardly-subtle...
While sorting donated clothes one day to hang in the store, I found a denim railroad jacket and bought it for about $2. It was well-worn, raggedy in places, and I loved every stitch of it. Back home in Chapel Hill, my mother was horrified by the jacket and my insistence on wearing...
I was reading to him, he commented that I looked like a Minion. Having not cared much for my reflection much back then, I got quite a surprise when I looked in the mirror. Even my eyes were yellow. I had to leave them. Abandon my safe cave, my routine, I had bottles to hide. ...
A heartache always seems so easy to findBut I will never let go, I wanna see what this love has to hideWe'll just have to face it, rearrange and place itI'll never let love pass us by Give me one good reason and I will give you twoSay: "I love you forever", say you will,...
I was so tired. And I had lost all confidence my body had once afforded me to years of cancer treatment. And again, those stark extremes. Here I was in one of the most breathe-takingly beautiful places in the world and I was worried my body wouldn’t be able to take me where I ...