My generation has not been well-educated about this, neither has the generation before mine. You have to figure it out. The point isn’t really whether Thucydides is ‘more reliable’ as a ‘scientific historian’ than Herodotus; the point is, that’s an exercise that will help you ...
I very much enjoyed the Harlow area stuff. The ride up Jedi is really not bad, but getting the bike up the rocky bits near the top was definitely a challenge. I’m a sucker for a good view tho, so the second I got to the top, I forgot all about how tough it was to ge...
Anyone who has spent any time in New Zealand or around Kiwis wouldn’t be surprised for a second to learn that bungee jumping was basically invented, at least commercially, by jumping off this perfectly nice bridge into a terrifying gorge. Anyone who has spent any significant time around us ...
I place a foot on what I assume to be a solid mound and am taken aback when I realise it has the consistency of stacked liquid (Arran and I both made reference to the soup tower joke from Black Books, if anyone remembers that). This misery continues for some time but we make our w...
However, not traveling has resulted in questions of what I’ve identified about myself in the past. And, In the last year, I’ve found it more and more difficult to detach myself from work. So, I’ve been struggling with any kind of prospect of where to go and what to do with ...
Now, she sits on the floor and talks. She’ll talk about almost anything but politics, which includes where she stands on abortion. “Don’t git me into marchin’ on Washington, and don’t even ask my opinion on it, ’cause I don’t have one.” About everything else, she has opin...
s name. It would be like dubbing myself C-Nic.) It’s just much easier to look at the slickly marketed photographer-du-jour who has managed to get himself/herself plastered all over the Internet, than to actually seek out the photographers who are more concerned with their art than ...
The show’s popularity with Sacramento audiences may be one of the worst kept secrets in town. Broadway At Music Circus is presenting the show for the sixth time since its phenomenal Broadway debut in 1982. It features a smorgasbord of musical genres that has left me streaming, signing, and...
“good for you” aura, because one of the ways that my anxiety about being fat worked at the time was that I had to demonstrate to other people that I ate “healthily.” I’ve since worked very hard – and your blog has helped me – cement in my mind the idea that foods aren’t...
“He is not released out of sympathy or compassion. He must be released because the statutory standards for granting parole have been met. Neither the Parole Board nor this Court has discretion to suspend the law in a special case.”