Still, this phone is annoying. There’s hardly ever anybody on the other end of it anymore that I want to talk to. Instead it’s someone telling me there’s nothing wrong with my credit card. Or someone who wants to know how old my roof is, or if I’d like to take a short sur...
One:Someone else will define it for you, and their definition may not be appropriate to you. You may spend years trying to live up to someone else’s idea of success without realizing that it’s either impractical, unhealthy or impossible for you to achieve it. If you’re going to use ...
It's well-known now that some expressions born online can affect our way of thinking. A case in point is tangping, or "lying flat," which propagates a nihilistic attitude that rejects the concept of hard wor...
opened the film attempting to steal a girder from a shuttered factory; he’s reintroduced here dragging home a mattress he found lying about. The divorced father of Nathan (Wim Snape) in the film, he is now additionally the twice-divorced semi-estranged father of teen...
"That stuff that has been on the margins of the experience now are the bread and butter of this new degree," Bass said. "They are at the center of what we do." The combined degree probably won't be less expensive than the four-year degree is now, but Bass believes it will be pac...
When young Tan-Tan is spirited to a planet of exiles by her abusive father, she escapes his clutches and finds refuge among the douen, an alien race inspired by Afro-Caribbean folklore. To survive on this new planet, Tan-Tan becomes the stuff of myth herself: the Robber Queen, a ...
Because that’s where cowboys carried guns and got in gunfights. Cowboys had a need for handguns when they were out rounding up cattle and stuff. There were snakes and predators that threatened the cattle and understandably pissed-off native Americans. But when those cowboys rode into Dodge, ...
About that…people (and by ‘people’ I mean Republicans and gutless Democrats) are posturing outrage again, asking “How did the would-be shooter get so close to Trump before being spotted?” He got that close because 1) Trump insists on golfing at his public courses, and 2) golf cours...
When reading an email, talking on the phone, or considering any type of communication, we tend to focus on its content. If someone asked you to look at your email and report back on the language used, you’d probably focus on the main topics. There were a bunch of emails about this ...
Most of us put our best foot forward when we’re first dating someone. That’s not to say we’re lying about who we are, but we want to come across as our best selves. When things start getting a bit more real, you let your guard down and show your true self. ...