What have you been reading lately? When was the last time you read a book? Are you a wide reader? In a gathering, you can tell who the wide readers are. Wide readers think and speak well. They win the admiration, respect, and good opinion of others. Reading expands the mind. In fact, many people…

If you’ve ever traveled to a foreign country and stuttered and stammered your way around the attractions because you don’t know the local language, you do know what it feels like to not know a language other than your own. To some people, to show up in a new country without knowing the language is…

The whole cantaloupe food poisoning hullabaloo and the German salad greens scare before that certainly did attract a lot of attention. And deservedly so, too. If the tens of millions of people who are sickened through food poisoning every year were to put a little more thought into how often it happens, they wouldn’t get…

Easter is another one of those days that brings friends and family together. There are many great dishes and plans that can be made for Easter dinner depending on where in the world you may be celebrating. Just remember to try to avoid making plans for Easter dinner that are contingent upon the weather to…

Pre-school learning is an educative partner of the family. Here are some reasons that make kindergarten an extremely important educative factor: (1) it creates an environment adequate for children and it puts them in contact helping them become social (2) assure a good debut for primary school (3) is an environment of protection and passing…

XM versus SIRIUS   The idea of America’s biggest two satellite-radio joining forces has been up in the air for almost four years. Although XM had a year’s start, Sirius came back on the market, eventually with both companies sharing the market in half. So, what’s to choose? XM or Sirius? First thing’s first. XM…

Playing cards are not just for playing cards any more. The backs of the decks are no longer just designs or pictures. People have figured out that they can use them for getting messages across or sales pitches. There is a variety of uses for the space on the back of playing cards. Custom designs…

Game has a very important role in our life, we start our childhood with playing games. Now a day we have computer game. There are many types of computer game. Where we have variety of game from which we can make a choice. RPG is a type of game in which player assume the role…

Call me old-fashioned, but I have always enjoyed making my own happy birthday cards. For better or for worse, I never have a shortage of things to say to my friends, and this serves me well in making cards for birthdays. Sometimes, I write a happy birthday poem. Other times, I write about something that…

Consider the printer’s DPI (dots per inch) capability, which is the resolution at which it can print photos and documents. The higher DPI (dots per inch) you have, the better quality you will have in either text or photo printouts. Consider the cost of ink. When purchasing a new printer, take a moment to compare…

Of the three purposes of writing, to inform, entertain, and enlighten, which one should come first? Such is the question I ask myself and answer from the point of view of a thinker. Also, what is the role of a reader when reading the thoughts of a thinker? Read on and find out. Let us…

A Great Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe to Treat your Cold Do you believe that vitamin C can help prevent and treat colds? If so, don’t read any further. Okay, don’t say that you weren’t warned, but vitamin C doesn’t actually have any effect on treating colds per se. An experiment was conducted a while back…

There’s more to be said for – and by – the animation itself. The original book’s gently sketched visual style – the work of writer-illustrator Marla Frazee – has been switched out for an ebullient, retro-expressionist colour-whirl that’s hugely indebted to both the pioneering Disney artist Mary Blair and Bill Watterson’s Spaceman Spiff Calvin and…

The teenage years are crucial in the growth of children. Unfortunately these are the years where children experience some of their most challenging encounters. This particular period in a child’s life can take them down many paths, some of them not so pleasant. Teen children who are forced to deal with upsetting circumstances often lash…

Recently, while visiting a friend’s office, he began to tell me his business was a mess. It wasn’t fun anymore. “The problem with this business,” he said, “is that the manager (ME) is the worst person for the job. I have no training in management. My partner just wants to come to work, do his…

The criminal law is designed with a view to protecting the individual rights of the citizen and the health and well being of society as a cohesive unit.  In this regard, it is responsible for setting the parameters of social conduct, and for ensuring consistent application of principle and doctrine across the board.  One of…

You know that an idea has the public imagination when you hear it described by a number of imaginative epithets. Older women-younger men romantic pairings somehow really have the public imagination. They get called Cougar relationships (the cougar being the older woman, as you probably know from the Courteney Cox-starring TV show Cougar Town), May-December…

There’s an old Wizard of Id comic strip in which a wife asks her husband about how in their marital vows, she was promised “through thick and thin”. “When is thick?”, she asks him. If there is any kind of advice for newlyweds that they most often can use, it would have to be financial…

Before I took my vacation up to Alaska, if a little understanding of how large Alaska was, and how remote some of its destinations. My Alaska fishing guide told me a fact that is common knowledge to many, but that had eluded me up to that point: Alaska is so large that if it were…