A Life As A Human Interview: Chelsea and her partner Owiny Morris met a group of street children in Lira, Uganda in 2011 and felt compelled to help them. When they found that there was no government social network to help them they turned to each other and asked a simple question, “Why not us?”
Archives for April 2013
Mushroom Man
Mycellium have the potential to clean up toxic waste, rein in E. coli, and cure Alzheimer’s disease. Plus they make a mighty fine addition to any stir fry.
Punishing the Saver
Developments in the Cypriot financial sector have sent shock waves around the world. The decision to heavily tax savers is ill advised and will only exacerbate Cyprus’s economic problems in the long term.
A Grenadian Love Affair
Having passed through well over forty different countries I’ve have found something to awe, impress, excite, fascinate or calm me in every single one. But I’d never found a place to which I thought I’d be content to return every single year…at least until I met Grenada.
Motivation-Reaction Units: Cracking the Code of Good Writing
What’s the secret to good prose? What makes it work—not just on the aesthetic level of vivid and poetic word choices, but on the deeper and ultimately more important level of functionality?
Scuba Tourism And The Death Of Coral Reefs – Part 2
The only region in the Caribbean that has a completely intact major coral reef eco-system is the Jardines de la Reina (Queen’s Gardens) coral reef off Cuba’s south coast.
Summer Memories
Jagged, shattered, fragmented shards of memory swirled, and then coalesced in her mind. Those hands. Those hands close to her son’s throat.
Daddy, Can We Have A Blueberry Tree?
When visitors “adopt” their very own blueberry plant, they learn – especially the children – more about the farming life, as well as reaping the rewards by harvesting fresh blueberries.
Forty Degrees Fahrenheit
A poem about how quickly life rides on by
The Bottom Line about Your Bottom’s Health – Fibre for Colorectal Cancer Prevention
Colorectal cancer is highly treatable if detected early, and fiber can be a key to prevention.