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Years ago, when I first moved into a small cottage by myself, I was in self imposed austerity, adjusting to a simpler, and less expensive lifestyle. WIth no cable television, I made use of various pirated sites where I could find shows to watch. It wasn't ideal certainly as there was lots of buffering and …
Race is a human construct. At the genetic level, there's no such thing. We are human beings, homo sapiens, despite different skin tones, hair types, eye shape, height and all the other variations our species enjoys. Men and women can procreate and create fertile offspring no matter our place of birth, and anyone with a few …
The gun culture in the United States is one thing, and there's lot of room for debate about its place in the modern world, but the hate culture is another story for which there is no debate. Our current political atmosphere is so toxic that all the pent up hatred toward specific groups of people …
Ah summer. That wonderful time of year when temperatures reach broiling by 10:00 AM. When you sweat in your freshly ironed shirt by the time you reach your car, and then can't breathe when you get in it. If that's not wonderful enough, the mosquitoes are out in force to make your skin feel like …
To paraphrase Kit Harington, in one of the many interviews he must have grown weary of doing, as he was asked the same question countless times, he said the end of Game of Thrones was like coming to the end of a good book; you're not exactly "happy" it's over. You're hopefully satisfied, but happy …
I stumbled across a YouTube channel called Nerd Soup as it came up in my feed due to my Game of Thrones fandom. I enjoyed their in-depth analysis of the show and subscribed to the channel. As the show's final season pressed on though, they have become more and more critical and today, I finally …
I am either blessed or cursed with the ability to allow a book, show or movie to take its natural course without trying to guess where it's heading, or how it might end. When I see people struggling with disappointment over a twist or turn of the plot because it's not what they expected, I …
After seven months, it was clear that time and length, arguably the solution to most beard "problems," were not coming to my rescue. With thin cheeks and sideburns, the full beard I was sporting looked unacceptable to me; a wispy attempt that just fell short. I trimmed off the offending whiskers and trimmed up the …
There's nothing quite like growing a beard, at least in my experience, that opens the door for other people to tell you what they'd like you to do. People suddenly feel free to offer their opinions, pervasive as those are, on whether I should grow it at all, how it makes me look, and what …
Action through inaction is one of the concepts I try to live by, in business as well as personal situations. It doesn't apply everywhere, but it's basically allowing things to take their natural course. I learned it during my studies of Taoism, which I often refer to when troubled. I even have the words Wu …
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