10 end of summer activities

Rock legend Alice Cooper commemorated the joy of the last day of school in the band’s ubiquitous 1972 hit “School’s Out.” With no school to fill the teens’ last weeks or days of summer, it’s up to parents to figure out how to keep them busy and out of trouble. Start planning now to stretch your creativity muscles with fun […]

jeffrey archer "Old love" Redefine the love story

Jeffrey Archer’s “Old Love” is a singular love story between two brilliant Oxford English Literature students. Archer explores the theme of love from a completely unusual point of view. The performance is fiercely honest as it portrays a chronic sense of envy and rivalry between two sworn arch-rivals at Oxford University: William Hatchard and Philippa Jameson. Initially, his aggressive competition […]

Teaching: do some people become teachers to feel superior to others?

It has been said that everyone on this planet is a teacher on one side and a student on the other. Based on this, it is a two-way process, and if one does not have this perspective, one is likely to be unbalanced. In this case, one might believe that other people are here to learn from them or they […]

They made hit records and saw UFOs

On August 24, 1974, Lennon lay naked in bed in a New York penthouse on East 52nd Street. He wasn’t with Yoko Ono at the time, he was with his girlfriend May Pang. He was looking at mockups of his upcoming album cover and waiting to take a shower. At 9 pm he said that he “felt like” getting up […]

From the west coast to the deep, deep south

This morning, I saw my first armadillo since my sister picked me up at the Houston airport and drove us 3 hours further into Texas. The prehistoric-looking creature was wandering around the burn pile this morning. Finally he entered the forest. Moving from the West Coast to deep East Texas has been a big transition. Mom can’t stay alone, so […]

Palm Springs Celebrity Hookups: Harold Robbins – King of Paperback Romantic Adventure Novelists

He was a foul-mouthed old man when I met him and I think he had been that way for a long time. But he was also kind to me in ways that helped me formalize a period in my life that led to owning and building Celebrity Books. Harold Robbins was my first major celebrity to do a book signing […]

Find out how to seduce him using 4 fractionation techniques

Essentially, what the following techniques are designed to do is create tension and arouse a man’s interest in you by gently pushing him away. The old bait and switch Ask him to tell you about a revered/sentimental childhood experience and then reflect on what he told you while relating to what he said and then, when you think the conversation […]

How to Wear a Sari: North Indian Style

The sari is a traditional Indian garment (six meters of cloth that wraps a woman in a particular way) that has always fascinated people all over the world. People all over the world wonder how Indian women can wear a sari and walk and work in one. Six yards (5-5.5 meters) of fabric, which is not sewn, but wrapped around […]

"Shroud for a nightingale" by P. D. James

A young nursing student is killed during a demonstration at the Nightingale Training College; she acts as a patient and two companions demonstrate intragastric feeding. Food believed to contain milk turns out to be disinfectant, making Nurse Pearce’s death extremely painful. It occurs in the presence of Miss Beale, the Inspector of the General Nursing Council, which greatly damages the […]

Organize a scrapbook cutout: three inspiring ideas for you

You can be a consultant who wants to interest your clients to attend more of your events, or you can organize a harvest made up of a group of friends who get together to have fun. If you’re the Host/Consultant, it’s always good to have a few ideas up your sleeve to keep people inspired, including yourself! The beauty of […]