Renaissance 2.0
I was browsing thru an old LiveJournal that I used to keep way back in 2000 and stumbled across the following entry regarding a friend who committed suicide. It still hurts thinking of it even after all these years. I hope this helps someone out there. Suicide I just found out that an old friend…
My friend Robert shared an interesting post on utterz today about a legendary beauty, Bridgette Bardeaux and how unkind time can be even to the most beautiful of us. Here’s the photo of the french looker then and now: It appears as if father time isn’t fair when it comes to aging men and women….
The 1999 song wear sunscreen by Baz Luhrmann was based on an essay written in 1997 by Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich called “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young“. It quickly became popular as people circulated it via email and photocopies, an early example of viral marketing. Somehow the piece became falsely…
As I do every year, I watched two of my all-time favorite movies around Christmas time: It’s a wonderful life and A Christmas Carol (1951 version with Alystar Simms). I love these two stories because of the message in them. The core of the story involves loving your fellow Man and appreciating God’s greatest gift…LIFE!…
You know what gets me the most this time of year? I hate that I get all misty eyed whenever I hear a radio station call some sweet mother who has been struggling so much financially that they can’t even afford to have Christmas for their kids and then tell them that they are going…
It’s a cliche but I must admit that I love this time of year most of all! December is a wonderful time and I relish each and every day as much as possible. I enjoy the cold and all the Christmas decorations and even those overplayed sometimes annoying Christmas songs! It could be a link…
It’s been a long time since my last post, which was my question about Virtual Friends that you make strictly online. Well, I’ve learned a few things recently that has given me some harsh answers and woken me up to the stark reality of life in regards to this question. While it is true that…
Here’s the question of the day: “Can you consider someone a true friend even if you’ve never met in person?” I ask this because I do consider some of my online buddies to be some of the best friends that I’ve ever had and I’ve never met some of them in person! How can this…
She is 92 years old, petite, well-poised, and proud. She is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably coifed, and her makeup perfectly applied, in spite of the fact she is legally blind. Today she has moved to a nursing home. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making this…
