In contrast to the Cold War, when the United States had a continuous diplomatic presence in Moscow and thousands of trained Russia specialists, the U.S. government has been absent from Iran since the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and boasts of little in-country expertise. 冷...
Today being Father’s Day I recall how I used to avoid this day when I was a Facebook subscriber. “Here’s me and dad at the ball game…” or “enjoying a couple of beers…”, came post after post. “Here’s us hanging out at the mall… and now playing a round of golf…” ...
Part of that was that I took 2 runs through Latin America, staying 2-3 months in each place, during 2018-2019, and went back to Buenos Aires and Montevideo in both of those years. Then in 2020, I was supposed to go to Medellin for a month, revisit Cuenca for 3, and then go on ...
you see, had a term for a large quantity; a “sand hundred”. The idea was that, although one could see with the naked eye that sand consisted of discrete grains, enumerating all the grains in a sand dune, let alone an entire desert, was ...
That was chance too. Am I proud of being disabled? No. Am I proud of some of the things I’ve achieved while living with a disability? Sure. I think what I’ve just written is a common reaction to a month of “disability pride.” But after my initial reaction, I learned more ...
Aclichéis a tired, stale phrase or idiom that, because of overuse, has lost its impact. What was once a fresh way of looking at something has become a weak prop for writing that feels unimaginative and dull. Clichés are what you write when you don’t have the energy or inspiration to...
Well I am conscious of the way that I act I'm not a per who does tricks at the drop of a hat I wish I was fiction, I wish I was fact I need to build a wall around me I need to build a wall around me But I want to smile with everybody Would you say that it is possessi...
In June i had a brain stem stroke. the second stroke. the first one was feb. the year before. it happened so fast without warning. i kept throwing up and was off balance and had double vision. I had therapy and the throwing up lasted two days. The double vision hung in there. i ...
I held out a minor hope they WEREN’T going to make the ex boyfriend a complete shit, and that he was actually going to help our ML…that went down the drain pretty quick though. And this particular actor seems to only play awful people :D 0 reply Name Email * Register or Log...
“There’s plenty of young people and not just who’ve died, but have had episodes on the field, had to retire, had to stop playing. But then now you’re vilified to even question, like, back in the day, this is how fucking crazy and backward this shit is. There was a...