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The journey of life can be easy or it can be difficult, as you grow through the inevitable ups and downs, that life will also throw at you. As this is more about me then about you I feel I should share the ah hah moments I have had through my life. And in

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Computers & Technology > Computer Buying Tips Is it better to buy a store-bought computer or build one yourself?: 5 of 36

Store Bought computers being compared to custom builds, which is better? It would depend on what you are looking for, and what you will be using that computer for. As a system being used for something as simple as word processing and some Internet browsing will have lower requirements, then say a system that you want to run ...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Death of a pet: 8 of 57

When Fluffy was killed much to early in his life, simply from a person who did not have patience to deal with a kitten, nor the temperance to be left in charge of watching a hyperactive cat, who had come from life on the streets, to a home, with most of the occupants, blissfully unaware of a kittens needs, a male kitten no l...
Computers & Technology > Internet Tips How to find your friends on Facebook: 3 of 16

How powerful is Facebook - to reconnect with lost friends or colleagues? As the top social site according to 2009 numbers, does such a behemoth of a company also insure that the interface is intuitive enough to also make it easy to find the people you seek? Certainly Facebook would like you to think so and I am inclined to a...
Society & Lifestyle > Subcultures The case against street gangs: 2 of 9

On Gangs: Is there a point? Does it make sense to shorten your life? To risk physical harm for a color whether Red or Blue? Is it about a family on the lack of one with your birth parents? So many questions, in the answer would you find the why? The integral reason for the risk, this shortening of life for a color? For a glo...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: The Nutcracker legacy and winter holidays: 2 of 9

Testimonies: The Nutcracker legacy and winter holidays. Ah, the Nutcracker, legacy and the holiday season, every year I have had the opportunity to attend a nutcracker performance in some way or another but only once was I so fortunate to have my sister performing within a company. It was the year 2000 and the world was amaz...
Relationships & Family > Tips for Marital Happiness Should couples live together before getting married?: 41 of 180

Looking back on times past, do you realize how many marriages may of been saved had they experienced living in the same house first. Instead of finding out when they are already committed that they are just not compatible living together. Maybe it is something small, a slight habit one person has that drives the other person...
Relationships & Family > Family Life Learning to take responsibility for your own behavior: 12 of 48

To take responsibility for your own behavior is often the most difficult considering it is so much easier to point the finger and say it is someone else, as I am sure you have heard before the problem with that approach is there are still four fingers pointed back at you ... so admitted or not, majority rules. Though it is a...
Celebrations & Holidays > Christmas Really cheap Christmas gift ideas: 7 of 28

Creativity abound seems to be the key here, to create cheap Christmas gifts, offers the receiver something that is representative of you, a memory perhaps, an opportunity. Simple as a card, created from scratch, made personal with the addition of unique signature, of something that represents you. Not commercialized, not bou...
Sciences > Sciences (Other) The history of the bicycle: 1 of 4

The bicycle and it's history, is very unique from it's early days until the current version seen most often today such as Mountain Bikes, or Road Bikes, BMX, are a far cry from the early years of what was considered a bicycle. The term bicycle and it's design really came about around the year 1870 according to pedalinghistor...
Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book reviews: Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult: 1 of 4

Jodi Piccoult's - Nineteen Minutes is an amazing fiction story, that takes the experiences very similarly from the Columbine shooting, but it centres around only one perpetrator instead of two at least that is what you think as you begin reading. You may be in for a surprise once you reach the end, but this article is only a...