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I'm in it for the writing. That's it. That's what I want to do with my life. It took me a while to figure that out, but I finally did. I love writing. I've been a fiend for fiction most of my life (mostly science fiction as done by H.G. Wells and Jules Verne,

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Education > Education (Other) Should teens have sex education in schools?: 1 of 78

Knowledge is power. The question is not whether teens should be exposed to a sensitive topic like sex so early in their lives. Rather, the question is whether not being taught about sex will help teens more in the long run. In two words, it won't. Teens need to be taught about sex so as to be forewarned about all the risks a...
Travel > Travel Diaries & Adventures (Other) Travel experiences: Best road-trip tales: 1 of 42

Late in the summer of 2006 I discovered that ideal conditions for a road trip consist of three friends, one mechanically unreliable car, a journey of nearly two thousand miles through civilization and wilderness, and a certain lack of forethought about where to go and what to see. For roughly five days my good friends Chris,...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Epitaphs, obituaries & tombstone inscriptions: 1 of 11

My mother does not want her body to be interred in a cemetery. Rather, she wants it to be wrapped up in a shroud, flown by helicopter over the caldera of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, and hurled bodily into its flaming mouth. "I want to be chucked into a volcano" is a phrase I've heard her say many times when the topic of the fate of...
Food & Drink > Soft Drinks Which is better: Coke or Pepsi?: 3 of 32

This question is as nebulous as the debate between Duracell and Energizer or Ford versus Dodge, and like them it seems to be largely a matter of preference. Having sampled both Coke and Pepsi liberally and considered both sides of the argument, my favor lies firmly with Coca-Cola as being the clearly superior soft drink. Sev...
Entertainment > Entertainment (Other) Modern society has become obsessed by media-driven entertainment: 4 of 34

Modern society is addicted to media-driven entertainment. This is the reason that there are televisions in people's bedrooms. The reason that cell phones and hand-held devices that can download music, video and games are profitable propositions for electronics companies. The reason that media themselves are blending together...
Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Reflections: Religion through the eyes of this atheist: 1 of 8

There is no easy way for me, an acknowledged atheist since the age of 11, to summarize the way I feel about religion succinctly. This is partly because one cannot simply lump all the varied religious factions, sects, denominations and groups of the world under one umbrella term and refer to them generally; and it is also bec...
Creative Writing > Essays Essays: War in Iraq: 4 of 28

The underlying conflict pursuant to the struggle in Iraq in which we are engaged is the most elemental in the history of the human race: wrong versus right. There is no other way to look at it. It could be argued that we went to war under a different premise: self-defense perhaps, the protection of ourselves and our future. ...
Food & Drink > Dairy Products & Eggs What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?: 3 of 17

Anything with the word "fudge" in it gets me going. Growing up in the Eastern United States, I never lived more than five miles away from a Baskin Robbins. I inherited my mother's bias against fruity-flavored ice cream and so focused instead on chocolate and caramel. I sampled the chocolate spectrum: chocolate chip ice cream...
Health & Fitness > Health & Fitness (Other) Dreams and nightmares: 3 of 16

I have irrational dreams, and my nightmares occasionally have happy endings. I don't know what that says about me or my mental state, but it's the truth. On the rare occasions when I remember my dreams, they are uniformly weird, to the point where it would be difficult for anyone but Sigmund Freud to interpret them. I wake u...
Sciences > Astronomy Legends about the stars: 1 of 5

Among the elder civilizations, the Greeks had quite a few myths concerning the stars. It is a testament to the power of those legends that, millennia later, we still use the names the Greeks gave to the constellations: Pegasus, Cassiopeia, Orion, Leo, Taurus, Cancer, the Hydra, and a dozen others. Those names in a large part...