The recent Evercare survey “100@100” provided some insight into what centenarians have learned in their 100 or so years on this earth as well as what we might learn as more and more of us can reasonably expect to live to (and beyond) our 100th birthdays. Some of the most interesting responses relate […]
Rescheduling Doomsday
Archaeologists in Guatemala have uncovered a large Mayan mural that provides even more evidence for what they have been trying to tell people all along: The Maya never predicted the end of the world at all, much less in 2012. I discussed this in a post earlier this year (“The Mayan Prophecy”), that the doomsday […]
Not Much of a Leap for Women
Today is Leap Day, an extra day in our calendar every four years to compensate for the fact that the Earth actually takes 365 1/4 days to revolve around the sun. Leap Days (and Leap Years as a whole), like any unusual days, have several traditions and superstitions associated with them. In Greece, marrying in […]
Letting Go
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the fire that consumed my home and office in 2001. I can’t believe a decade has passed since that day when I watched everything I owned and all my work go up in flames. I can still hear the mantra that played over and over in my head: […]
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