Here’s a set of awesome posts from Life As A Human
Here’s a set of posts from LifeAsAHuman.com. I’d love to have some comments about this site.
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Arrival by Christine Shaw Roome
What I really want is for him to play on his own for a bit so that I can focus on acclimatizing. But he is a child and continues to poke me. He orders me around in that oh-so-charming-and-irritating way that only a three year old can do until find myself at wit’s end and I tell him that I’m not going to play trains anymore.
Savasana Mouse by Nathan Thompson
Nathan Thompson shares an incident during a yoga class that perfectly illustrates just how much the mind the mind likes to make up stories — the bigger the better — to explain what we don’t understand.
Gallivanting ‘Round Ghana by George Burden
A 15-year-old boy travels to Ghana and encounters kings, priestesses, sacred crocodiles, juju magic and malaria.
Girl Meets Canada: We Have Achieved Take Off! by Sarah Gignac
The ongoing story of a girl and her van on an epic journey across Canada. So, did I mention that I’m driving across Canada this summer? I think I may have failed to do so. I’ve been thinking about it for so long, I just assumed that everyone else knew. The whole world. Hi, world! DAYS [...]
The Other Side of Me: The Tone by Thriving On The Other Side
I found a deep heavy Tone inside me a few months into my work with Sue. The Tone is deep and scary. It’s the Tone of Jaws, the one they play right before horrible, unthinkable things happen. The Tone makes me want to curl up in a ball and hide.
Life As A Human Likes… by Kerry Slavens
Life As A Human Likes is a weekly feature of fascinating, enlightening, fun or just odd blogs and other web gems that enliven the experience of being human. This week, we feature a bit of a mixed bag…something for the dreamers, something for the schemers and something for the …um… wieners.
National Frickin’ Pride by Rob Jones
This actually happened to me while waiting for a 155 bus on 6th St here in New Westminster, British Columbia. There is a notable Anglo-Saxon word beginning with ‘F’ which played a large part in the dialogue. Since this is a family blog, I’ve rendered that ancient and well-traveled word of Germanic (ig)nobility with some [...]
Getting Bashed for Children’s Charities by David Sly
A very big man squeezed into a red lycra superhero jumpsuit is aghast. “I’ve been lied to and cheated out of a million bucks by the Chairman.” Can’t something be done to rectify this injustice? Mr Incredible stops and stares at me as though I’m completely mad. “Hell, no,” he huffs indignantly. “After all, we’re [...]
Character Flaws by Julie Harrison
I’m a sucker for anything with “character.” You know, one of those people that real estate agents market “charming” properties too. Also, the type that buys a new lipstick simply because its packaging is just so darn beautiful. And last but not least, the buyer of highly impractical, but terribly cute shoes.
It’s About Time by Peg Ainsley
The daughter of a watchmaker reflects on lessons learned in connection to time and timepieces.
Philosopoetic Innovation Part Two: The Beauty of Doing by Mary Rose
A warrior is blind when not training. I quickly fall into depression without proper foresight. In one of my darker moments, I looked at myself in the mirror one morning, and told myself I needed to make a choice. I needed to either be who I truly was, or die…
Sleeping with the Finches: Tales of the Songbird Mafia by Kevin Aschenbrenner
About a month into my feeding operation, I got up one morning to find three fat little birds sitting in the platter at the base of my feeder. These were not my usual customers. They were wild and rough looking, and occupied my feeder like it was now their private hangout, like Tony Soprano’s gang sitting outside Satriale’s. These were bad, bad birds, and I dubbed them the Songbird Mafia.
The Love Letter by Kerry Slavens
Legendary basketball coach John Wooden loved only one woman in his entire life, his wife Nellie. For more than two decades after Nellie died, he wrote a love letter to her each month on the anniversary of her death. This video of John Wooden shows a simple but profound man who found the real secret to a happy life. LOVE.
Make Sure You Come Over With an Empty Stomach! by Jeff Randhawa
Living in the multicultural society that we do, I am sure many of you have friends who are from India. Maybe most you already know about what I am going to explain in the next few paragraphs, but I feel it is compulsory to let those of you who don’t know that there are a [...]
Tarmac Meditations #15 — Not Knowin’ by Michael Lebowitz
A runner shares the stream of consciousness of his early morning thoughts.
Do “Looney” Cartoon Characters Show Signs of Mental Illness? by George Burden
It’s a hotbed of psychopathology rivaling that of any daytime soap opera. These individuals cover the entire spectrum of mental illness as outlined by the psychiatrist’s bible, the so called DSM-IV (revised). I am referring, of course, to the stable of unstable “Retro” cartoon characters to which Warner Brothers subjects our children on a regular basis.
Tarmac Meditations #14 — Coming Back by Michael Lebowitz
A runner reflects that it doesn’t matter how fast you are or how many times you fall, you just have to keep on coming back. That’s what makes the difference.
The Other Side of Me: Make Lemonade by Thriving On The Other Side
After thinking that I was going insane, the truth was somehow comforting. At least I knew I wasn’t the crazy Mad Woman. In a strange way, everything started to make sense.
“What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?” by Julia McLean
While most people were buying Anti-dandruff shampoo or Satnav kits or summer socks for a Fathers’ Day present, I was haring off to Finistere (Land’s End), in Brittany, to celebrate the Father of the Free French – Charles de Gaulle.
Steven Erikson’s Notes on a Crisis Part VIII: With Regret by Steven Erikson
As he writes his tenth novel in the Malazan series, Steven Erikson’s fiction comes face to face with sharp truth as one of his characters puts into words a reality Steven was not ready to face.
The Mystery Consciousness by Christopher Holt
Christopher Holt looks at how most adults lose our ability to appreciate magic and mystery in the world around us, and delves into one of the greatest mysteries of our time — crop circles.
Classroom Cleaning by Nathan Thompson
A teacher sets about cleaning his classroom before the summer session begins and discovers lots of dust, reminders of how much the tools of teaching have changed over the years, and the awareness that in the classroom or int he home, clutter is still clutter.
Tarmac Meditations #13 — Photographer’s Reflection by Michael Lebowitz
I met a couple of Vietnam vets who were there for the run — to “represent,” one of them told me with a grin. We talked about the weather, how the hedgerows were electric green in the downpour. I heard subtext in the rain talk, sensed it was a memory of jungle and youth. The far-off looks told me that memory is where you find it.