What You Should Know About Mother’s Day
When is Mother’s Day in 2021? And whose idea was it to create this holiday, in the first place? You’ll find the answers to both questions in its surprising origin story.
MAKING AMERICA GREAT WILL REQUIRE ENDING THE LIES
A lot has been made of Trump’s pathological lying and the damage it is doing to the fabric of our society. Not least is the current rocky transition to a new leader. But a compelling argument could be made that since the founding of our nation we have been pickled in lies and deceit. No […]
Owner Builds Indoor Tree Climb For Cat, And The Tabby Loves It
Does your cat get stuck up in the tree often? Well, why don’t you start giving your nature-loving feline this magical indoor tree climb? Your loveable fur baby can now play safer and closer to you. There’ll be no need for any ladders anymore when your cat can land freely on your carpet floor, sofa, […]
Suicide and the Lottery of Second Chances
On New Year’s Eve, 1994, I pulled my beat-up old Ford out from the garage of my mother’s home. I drove out to an empty street six blocks away. The drizzly sky was erupting into a climax of fireworks: blooms of blue and green, mesmerizing yellows, and pulsating reds: floating heavenward, and then hanging there […]
Exercising Your Brain – How a Great Podcast Can Change Your Future…
Time poor? Join the club! Most of us are. And yet we spent (on average in 2018) an insane 2 hours and 16 minutes per day on social media sites! And I used the word ‘spent’ deliberately because that time is very rarely an investment! It’s gone! It’s not coming back! Those memes and pointless […]
Why We’ll Never See an Alien Calling Home!
Most of us have imagined the joy, astonishment, awe or perhaps, fear, of meeting an alien. Some of us even claim to have done so. But unfortunately, even though there are undoubtedly trillions of planets out there, your odds of winning Lotto 10,000 times over are better than you ever communicating with an alien, let […]
Genetically We Are All Potential Terrorists…
By Guest Blogger: Ferdi Businger We comfort ourselves with the belief that the Germans and the Japanese people of the 1940’s had some genetic trait that predisposed them to violence, sadism, and war. That this phenomena is confined to race and a period in history. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. I won’t […]
Of Death and Regrets: What We Wish We’d Done Differently
My father-in-law died last week. He didn’t ‘pass over’ or ‘pass away’. He died. He’s dead. He’s not coming back – or at least not in a recognizable form. He was 75, touring New Zealand and suddenly collapsed and died within minutes. A good death. I can write about what he did or did not […]
Diatom Art – Nature Under the Microscope
You could be forgiven for thinking these are a form of precious stone. You could also be forgiven for knowing little to nothing about these amazing creatures. Diatoms are a form of algae, in fact, a very common phytoplankton. It’s estimated that there could be as many as 200,000 different varieties. They are in such […]
Trees Patiently Grown Into Wonderful Furniture and Art: 5 Masterpieces
The idea isn’t exactly new but Gavin Munro, and his company Full Grown, are definitely attracting attention in the industry of furniture making. In his furniture, beauty, function and actual preservation of Mother Nature’s well-being all exist! We think it is clearly Munro’s calling. The idea of shaping trees to make furniture has gradually sprouted in […]