Category: Writing
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Support and Comfort Words for Someone Who is Grieving
If you’re not used to offering words of encouragement after the death of a family member, it can be difficult to maintain contact and show your concern. Finding the right words of comfort for the family can be particularly challenging, especially if you were closer to the person who has passed away than to the…
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“Permanent Record” Review: Ed Snowden’s Great Reveal of Anti-privacy
Edward Snowden’s compelling memoir, “Permanent Record,” is an eye-opening exploration of the dangers posed by extensive data collection and storage. Edward Snowden’s Revelations on Government Surveillance In “Permanent Record,” Snowden unveils the risks inherent in the combination of ubiquitous data collection and permanent storage. Governments, he warns, can use this powerful tool to selectively target…
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A Snoring Hummingbird Totally Deserving of Its Own Blog Post
A cute, sleeping, emerald-green, Peruvian hummingbird, accidentally caught in the deepest of its sleep, snoring like a steaming kettle or, as some of the YouTube comments have cleverly nailed it “a falling grenade”.
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Raising Dogs vs. Raising Kids: 5 Ways to Practice Consistency
I don’t want to be one of “those” people that claim having a dog is the same as having a child. But some aspects of keeping a dog do resemble having a two-year kid. Others are completely different.
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How to Get Noticed at Work
There is one characteristic that separates every successful person from the majority of other people.
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The Woman with a Mustache (Short Story)
People were giving me weird looks, couples whispering to each other, covering their mouths with their hands. I felt like I was in a Victorian era movie and that an unscrupulous ostracizing was waiting in the wings.
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Respecting Nature:How to Use Her Gifts without Creating Harm
In spring, nature boasts in all its beauty, and, as the time rolls out from June to October, we will enjoy in her flowers and fruits as they change colors and spice up the visual panopticon we stand on with an overwhelming sense of abundance. Even in deserts, if you know where to look, you…
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5 Ways to Help Your Dog Thrive if You Need to Stay at Home
Dogs are remarkably resilient animals, surprising us with their fight through incredibly tough circumstances over and over again. But dogs are also social creatures that need the outdoors to thrive. Despite being able to lean on you for social support, staying at home will not be an easy pill to swallow for most of them. …
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Watch ‘Togo’, The Movie (2019): It Will Be the Best 2 Hours You’ve Spent During the Coronavirus Crisis
Scrolling hypnotically through my social media feed in search of some common sense in the current panic-ridden world, I came across a friend who shared how his family filled the self-quarantine hours. His suggestions weren’t altogether alike the examples of parents who do scavenger hunts and agility games to entertain anxious (read: energy-driven) stay-at-home children.…
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“Dodging Satan”: How Not To Raise a Catholic (Book Review)
Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood by Kathleen Zamboni McCormick My rating: 5 of 5 stars If we could open up a contest about the world’s most Catholic family, Bridget’s Italian-Irish concoction would definitely top up the rating. The clever girl is raised by the tight glove of religion from both…
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The Alpinist Dog Who Got Lucky After Being Stranded and Freezing for 24 Hours
There is an unspoken pact between humans and dogs: collaborate, cohabitate, and support each other. Many of us have opened their hearts and souls to understand this intuitively. Some are not there yet. But that’s not so important: what matters the most is not which side of awareness you are on, but the depth and…
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Christmas Dog Adoption: Pawsome Enthusiasts’ Efforts to Find Homes for Stray Dogs
In a modest but heartwarming photo exhibition, the passionate volunteers from Pawsome Enthusiasts yet another time tried to find forever homes for homeless dogs in Skopje.
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How to Understand Stray Dogs
Understanding stray dogs is not easy, mostly because we don’t understand dogs and animals in general. Another reason is that we don’t fully understand ourselves and view the world from an anthropocentric perspective. Rather than being helpful, our human-centered approach is often an obstacle to understanding stray dogs. Although we think we know a lot…
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Dog is Love: The Science-Backed Fact about Dogs We Have Intuitively Known Forever
Dogs are capable of unconditional love. Many of you know that without reading exhaustive science journals. It is intuitive awareness gathered in situations when you accidentally step on a dog’s paw, drowning in guilt only to see that your dog has forgiven your poor orientation skills before you have forgiven yourself. For most of us,…
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“The Artist’s Way” By Julia Cameron: Why Every Writer Should Read This Book (Review)
Thanks to Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way” I became capable of seating with hours at the desk and enjoying the process. I also learned how important wellbeing is and that wellbeing and safety should be a part of work, flow, and happiness.
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Emotional Contagion: How Your Facebook Comments Feed Turns Into a War of Words
Emotional contagion on social media.
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“The Inconceivable Truth: A Gutsy Memoir about Defining and Surviving Childless Womanhood in the 21st Century” by Nicki Fenthum (Book Review)
There was a moment in time when I didn’t quite understand why people decide to share their stories in so many personal details. I thought – why would someone want to expose to the bare bones to random strangers? Then it dawned on me – they are not doing it for themselves or, rather, they…
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Mathematics – the Imperfect Language of the Universe
How can the self-restrictive rules of science damage its very core and why it’s not good to speak a single scientific language.
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9 Lessons About Love I Picked Up from “Mating in Captivity” by Esther Perel (Book Review)
What Esther Perel is talking about in “Mating in Captivity” is not the subject of serial affairs. She talks about a more complex problem: the affair that rocks an otherwise stable marriage.
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“Chasing Mercury” by September Williams [Book Review]
“Chasing Mercury” ticked all the right boxes of what I consider an amazing book deserving of a high rating. It has everything that I want from a good read – memorable characters, a plot that edges on the personal, the collective, and the political, and a curious take on what seems like usual human destinies,…
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“Jobs for Robots” by Jason Schenker (BOOK REVIEW): How to Make Yourself Irreplaceable in the Age of Robotics
Informed in one way or another, we all await for the faraway future to welcome robots on a grand scale. But robots are coming faster than we can tell. In fact, robots are already here and now it’s the best time to start preparing yourself for what once seemed only a distant possibility on the…
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