Here in the United States we’ll soon be celebrating Halloween. The traditions of Halloween are ingrained in our heads, pumpkins, candy, costumes and trick or treating. Some of us even know the reasons behind the traditions. Well, other countries have holidays that roughly coincide with our Halloween. One country that celebrates death a bit [...]
A guest post by Dennis Yu. I spend hours a day tending my virtual farm. I’m at level 21, have 51,815 in cash, and am ahead of most of my friends. I squeeze out every little bit of optimization from my farm, like a maniac. But why work so hard in a video [...]
A guest post by Dennis Yu, CEO of BlitzLocal, provider of local Internet advertising services. The Federal Trade Commission requires that MLM companies provide an Income Disclosure document. If they don’t have one readily available or it sounds too good to be true, run in the opposite direction as fast as possible. Let’s [...]
This is a guest post from Margie Hord Mendez. Hey, I got your attention… but no, we didn’t dance. But I’ve been thinking how different modern road trips with kids seem to be (from what I hear, mostly) to those back in my days. Now there are all kinds of contraptions to [...]
A guest post by Angie Bailey Grimes, owner of Wiley Mom, an expert money saving consultant. Statistics say that it will cost an American family (single or dual parent) between 125 to 250 thousand dollars to raise a child. That means from birth until age 18, you’ll be shelling out an extra $579 [...]
This is me telling my story on how I learned English. In our family we decided to homeschool our kids. We have many reasons for doing so, one of them is freedom to be able to choose what we teach to them and when. How to teach them Spanish was a subject that for [...]
This is the continuation of Part One, Our Story by J Cruikshank The Void By Janice Cruikshank The emptiness left from the loss of the twins was nearly unbearable and often frightening. I had dreams that they were in distress and, at one time, dead. There was no way to verify or dismiss these [...]
This is a topic that rarely sees the light of day, adoptions. When court records get sealed the government’s position is that it’s over. The reality is that mothers, who give up their kids for adoption rather than subject them to a life of hardship, are suffering heroes. They live their lives never knowing what [...]
Easy– write about something you don’t know about. Or write about something nobody cares about. Michael Crichton, who died a couple weeks ago, gave a lecture on how he became a writer. Med school was the best thing that could have happened to him, since it gave him the specialized medical expertise and scientific knowledge [...]
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