Man Card Slipping Through My Fingers Last night I stayed up late to finish a riveting novel. Intense suspense, with intriguing plot twists, shootouts, and cars plummeting over the edge of ravines. Oh, and the romance. By romance, I mean lots of romance. You see, this was Romantic suspense novel, written by a woman, with…
Challenged to write about the deep topic of Emotional Expression, my thoughts led to the late Jimmy Valvano, who coached NC State to a shocking NCAA basketball tournament upset over Houston to win the 1983 national championship. In his famous Never Give Up speech, a cancer-stricken Jimmy V. delivered a now-famous line about a full…
For the Rest of Us? Feats of strength? Is this blog about Festivus, from Seinfeld? Well, no, but I couldn’t help but reference it to kick things off. What’s your favorite Festivus tradition? The Festivus dinner or airing of grievances? For me, it’s got to be feats of strength. In the classic Seinfeld episode, this…
In a world where fiction needs to be believable and non-fiction is so wild it’s unbelievable, strap in for heroic train stops, jockeys winning post-mortem, and comets causing royal panic. Brace for Booth’s ironic rescue, Napoleon’s bunny debacle, identity mix-ups with life-altering bonds, and solitary ocean survival. Chuckle at space pranks, and salute a Polish…
The first space rendezvous, the greatest astronaut prank ever pulled, the first woman in orbit, an astounding spacewalk – learn the inside stories about the unsung space-breaking astronauts.
Jump to top 10 International Idioms You’re in a foreign land and nervous about conversing with the locals. But you’ve studied the basics of their language and have electronic translation tools. You’ve got this. Then they say something off the wall. The literal translation leaves you feeling like a fish out of water. You get…
I found myself wanting to give up as Archibald faced one hardship after another; one swell after another; one gale after another; one predator after another. But Archibald didn’t give up.
Jump to top 10 Idiom Etymologies Imagine you are at a soccer game with your Spanish friend, and your team was getting their brains beat in (losing). Besides calling the game football, your friend might say that it was time to “flip the tortilla”. You might respond by telling her not to beat around the…