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Having been born one of the very first Baby Boomers, and educated in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I have seen much and learned much about life. Life experience, education, and humor are valuable tools for any aspiring writer and I have reached the point in my life

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Sciences > Psychology Uncovering the significance of dreams: 4 of 39

Do you ever wonder about dreams, and if one is recurring, what it is that you are trying to work out by re-running them? I don't read books again. It takes a special movie for me to view it more than once. There are so many books and movies that I've never seen yet and life is too short to squander time on revisits. Why do t...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: English accents: 1 of 5

Is it also hard for others to believe that Great Britain was the country from which long-ago ancestors seeded our continent with pioneering emigrants from their "Old World" country, Great Britain? I have heard it said, that the United States and Great Britain are friendly, allied countries, separated only by an ocean and a c...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: The death of Charlton Heston: 4 of 18

During the early part of the 1970's, I lived in Roscommon, Michigan a small town about ten or fifteen miles from St. Helen, Michigan, where Mr. Heston spent several of his early years. It was in Roscommon that I met a man in his late eighties or early nineties, named Elmer. We lived a bit more than a mile apart. I do not rec...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Family stories and memories: 44 of 191

A few days ago I must have gotten some kind of corrosive liquid on the top part of my thumbs and forefingers, without realizing that I had. A skin color change and an annoying itch made me think that I contracted poison ivy from our firewood. The itch didn't last long and the purplish color went away quickly, so it wasn't po...
Society & Lifestyle > Lifestyles Life-altering decisions: 5 of 21

Have you ever wondered if your life would have been different if you had been given another name? If your parents had named you Tiffany or Chad, instead of Myrtle or LeShawn, would people treat and think of you differently? I've met many people who virulently hate their given name but I wonder if they blame the fact that the...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: The human mind: 8 of 33

Have you ever wondered where jokes come from? Who writes them? I imagine a small percentage of jokes write themselves through naturally occurring human interactions and are simply polished and retold by gifted storytellers for people who appreciate human folly and the ridiculous situations we get ourselves into. This is one ...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Predicting major changes in culture and lifestyle: 3 of 10

I think that life today will be looked at as the apex of human existence by those who follow us. Our level of comfort, leisure, diverse employment opportunity, medical care, housing, education, disposable income, entertainment, etc. will slowly erode as our burgeoning worldwide population consumes diminishing resources, land...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Cats that have changed our lives: 26 of 79

Over the last few years, there has probably been between fifteen and twenty resident outside cats that have claimed us as their own personal humans. Most of these are probably related, at least distantly to the original calico that showed up here desperately seeking asylum from constant hunger and rejection from her own kind...
Style & Beauty > Fashion Trends & Styles Underwear for every occasion: 1 of 3

As I have observed in the past, I do not lose my mind over a woman's breasts, as many men obviously do. That said, the newest commercial for Victoria's Secret features a new model in their ad for the "Dream Angels" bra with "memory fit," who will likely make this an enormously successful product. If I have ever seen a perfec...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: What it means to be a man: 15 of 39

By now, everyone has seen the Cyalis commercial, where an older couple is just about to head for the bedroom to get frisky, when the mood is interrupted by an unexpected visit by someone that, until that moment, the couple used to like. The ad says that fortunately for this couple, Cyalis works for "up to 36 hours." Eventual...