I had always been drawn to her. She was a good person, the kind of person I would have liked to have been. We began doing things together. One of those things was going to church.
Even if you go to a grocery store and buy a carton of milk, you don’t just want a lighter coffee, but a way to make it tastier, because you remember that instance when you once tasted it in childhood and it was bitter. Also, your mother never loved you. That’...
A lot of the popular accounts of religion are oversimplified to the point of being misleading. It’s easy to classify countries as either Christian or Muslim, but there’s ample evidence that Sunnis fight Shiites and Protestants have had wars with Catholics. Because of the almost infinite rang...
That always ends well. Or see if you can choose the fastest check-out line at the grocery store like me. Or be the driver who gets the most miles per gallon for your model of car like me. Or see who can save the most money in a month by not eating out and other self-imposed a...
But months later,griefset in. “I realized,Oh, some things arealwaysgoing to be hard”—dealing with the sensory overload of a grocery store, expressing her emotions to nonautistic loved ones. “The way the world is set up and the way my brain functions—there’s just a mismatch.” ...
It's important to remind ourselves that application performance is just one part of the greater world. Our everyday lives are filled with events – from sitting in traffic to standing in line at the grocery store – that challenge our need for flow. ...
It’s also important to remind ourselves that application performance is just one part of the greater world. Our everyday lives are filled with events—from sitting in traffic to standing in line at the grocery store—that challenge our need for flow. Poor web performance is just one problem...
An example can be seen when you go to the grocery store. You park, get a cart, walk down the aisles getting what you need, you check out, take your groceries to the car, load them, return the cart, and drive away. This is a typical and expected scenario to encounter when you go...
You wander up and down the aisles of the grocery store, staring blankly at the shelves, agonizing over what to bring.Should I make an appetizer?You think.A dessert?You consult your cellphone for recipes, which only makes everything worse because you’re faced with even more options...
If we live in a community with only a corner store and no grocery store, our ability to purchase fruits, vegetables, and whole grains may be limited or too expensive for us to purchase, whereas processed foods that tend to be high in sodium may be easier to get. For an overview of ...