Life is such an exquisite spell that everything conspires to break it. These wise words from Emily Dickinson have a deeper meaning than meets the eye. She tells us that the greatest magic in life is life itself. Think about it; how you came to exist, what you are destined to do and how you…
Category: Gaming
Should Online Gambling Be Banned?
Online Gambling There’s a great deal of debate about whether online gambling should be banned. In this article, we’ll explore some of the arguments for and against this policy. Then we’ll look at some alternatives for regulating online gambling. Finally, we’ll cover a few important facts that you should keep in mind before making your…
Book Review: Competent to Counsel by Jay Adams
Adams maintains, in his book, that the Christian is competent to advise. “As for you, my brothers, I am convinced that you are especially abundant in the highest goodness, richly endowed with perfect knowledge, and competent to advise one another.” Romans 15:14 (Williams) Jay Adams did not use the investigation of scientific findings to determine…
Foods to avoid when suffering from gout: the three main foods
If you’ve ever seen the play/movie 1776, you may remember a scene where Ben Franklin is led into Congress and carefully sits down, propping up his foot. He says something like “I wish King George felt like my big toe all over.” That was an allusion to taste, which Franklin suffered. Franklin was wealthy, and…
Power dynamics of dating and seduction
To be an effective womanizer, here’s what you have to do (it all comes down to this): Take them from being the ‘stimulus’ to being the answer to your natural, masculine character. When you can turn her from an irritable, overrated, socially desired woman to the innocent, receptive, captivated child in you, that’s seduction. The…
William Shawcross Sideshow
When we consider Nixon, Kissinger and the destruction of Cambodia, William Shawcross’s Sideshow is probably the main event, if not the last word. At the end of the book, it is difficult to imagine that the author has left intact a single document on the subject, a single actor in the saga without investigating. The…
Understanding the Serenity Prayer
For those who have been affected by alcoholism, para-alcoholism, dysfunction and abuse, and seek recovery in twelve-step fellowships, the Serenity Prayer recited at the beginning of their meetings is an integral part of the process. “The Serenity Prayer…represents a concentrated measure of serenity, humility, courage, wisdom, and spirituality in 25 words,” according to the textbook…
Write your own OBITUARY now!
I am not being negative and trying to make anyone feel bad in this article. I am pointing to the fact that we all have a certain number of years on this planet to make our contribution to the world. None of us will live forever and it is a fact that at some point…
Writing Great Ads
Great advertising can mean the difference between a customer reaching for their wallet to buy your book or putting the book back on the shelf. Big billboards sell books. But what is an advertisement, exactly? A blurb is the copy on the back cover of your book. After the cover, the blurb is the first…
The times before and the times after
When it happens that you lose a child or a partner, or someone close to you, your life is forever divided into a before and an after. When later times begin, earlier times take on a lightness of being, an almost enviable innocence, that seems lost in later times. A weight now lives around the…