This week, Life As A Human Likes features ways to alleviate the anxiety of modern living: a website with anxiety cures, an inspiring project in India that speaks to the heart, and a great website for book lovers because reading can help us get centered and de-stress.
Are you an Asker or a Guesser?
When an Asker Meets a Guesser, unpleasantness can result. So are you an Asker or a Guesser and does it matter? Nathan Thompson explores this cultural divide.
Miss Rosie Bitts Brings on the Burlesque
In her clicky high heels, Miss Rosie Bittstaps across the floor at the Superior restaurant in Victoria, her round little bum wiggling in a 1940-esque turquoise dress with a slit up to here. She tosses her long, blonde mane, positively oozing sex appeal. My gosh, and it isn’t even martini hour yet. But that’s the real beauty of hanging out with this rising burlesque starlet — wherever she goes, whatever time it is, it’s happy hour…and I’m not talking about booze.
Girl Meets Canada: The Really Long Road to Calgary
Our traveler and her plans to take the long road from BC to Alberta, through the Canadian Rockies, are repeatedly thwarted by the weather.
Awakening
A woman remembers how her mother rescued her from an abusive father and protected her from further abuse, yet she wonders why her mother shut the door on any kind of communication about ‘what happened’?
Tip on a Dead Junkie
I figured it was safer in the open. Dopers have an amazing calculus when they’re out of dope, when the sickness is on them, knowing that they need something now. I always believed the romance that junkies were fallen angels, had danced the Nutcracker, were just down on their luck, a day or two away from getting their “shit” together. Mostly though, they stole my wallet and my drugs and then they helped me look for them.
Who Stole The Night And With It, The Stars?
Ever since I was a young boy, I have loved the night sky. A favorite thing was to lie on my back, look up at all the stars and wonder if anyone else was up there, looking back at me. In my mind, I would trace out my own asterisms and give them goofy names. […]
Pen Pals
The Internet may be one of humanity’s greatest inventions, but there’s nothing like the experience of getting a handwritten letter from a distant stranger. Especially if it has x’s and o’s.
Coffee in the Village
An exploration of how coffee shops contribute to a city neighbourhood’s character. In this case, Victoria’s famous Cook Street Village.
My Delicious
Have you ever pondered all the delicious things in your life? Susie Ivory reminds us that the little things are really big things, worth savouring.
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