4 While Welsh athletes can punch their chest with pride and open their lungs to passionately sing along with Old Land of My Fathers at the Commonwealth Games, Australians have the option of the official anthem, Advance Australia Fair, described by one of their own senators as "so boring that...
The fathers complain that their vacations will be spent in a foggy cloud. On the streets, people with bundles accidentally bump into each other. And the children play hide-and-seek among the foggy rocks. It’s surprising how this simple story can become so intriguing. It’s the worst fog...
I wish I could do what all fathers do and tell you that monsters aren’t real. But it wouldn’t be true. Life can create things of exquisite beauty. But it can also twist them into hideous beings. Selfish. Violent. Grotesque. Monstrous. It hurts me to say that your mother h...
Being a child of divorce and having very limited time with my father, the "phenomenon" of disneyland dads makes perfect sense. When estranged fathers finally have time with their children, whether it is by their choice or not, there is a divide that is difficult to breach. You can't exp...
The answer to all the world’s problems is babies. Babies born to loving parents, married mothers and fathers who love and teach and cherish them. That is the hope of our planet. We need people who are good and kind and sensitive. We don’t need screaming protestors dressed up like vag...
When he moaned and sobbed it was with the pain of living that of old the pain of his wild fathers, and the fear and mystery of the cold and dark that was to them fear and mystery.” Tuperssuatsiait, Storøen Sleds and halibut, Tuperssuatsiait, Storøen Sleds, Tuperssuatsiait, ...
And here I sit proctoring an 8:00 a.m.Saturday morning final exam covering “Statistics and Experimental Design” taken by students several of whose relatives (aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters) were former students or advisees of mine. There are times when they look...
took it in their stride. It helped tremendously to be able to work part-time – as an art director it’s unheard of in SA. Family-life in Netherlands seems to be valued by society and the workforce – even fathers get to spend time with their children. An ideal society to raise a ...
What changes were observed in POP concentrations among Greenlandic mothers and fathers from the initial study to the follow-up? What geographical regions were highlighted for having high concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Arctic?
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense o