A rant on today’s economic turmoil in a consumer driven society
Category: Meanings
Is it Possible to NOT Lie?
Hi there, Today I got Busted. With a capital B, for ‘lying’. Not outright lying, or pathological lying, but white-lie lying. And when I tried to defend myself, the reply I received was ‘you lie all the time about this stuff’. I was gobsmacked. I mean…REALLY?! I’ve always considered myself a rather straight forward person, with…
Yay! A reason to celebrate on Fri-yay!
Just a little health check in to let you know that I am doing so much better! I went in for one of my follow-up blood checks and I was told that I’m now running on levels twice as high as I had when I went into the hospital. I am so happy! 🙂 It seems…
7 Weird Halloween Facts for a Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween, all! I know that your feeds are bursting at the seams with Halloween posts. I will add to that 😉 So, I decided to do something a bit different and share some random or little known facts about Halloween. The original Jack O’Lantern was carved into turnips, not pumpkins. Pumpkins are used in…
Window to Another Dimension: The Art of Orna Ben-Shoshan #AWindowtoAnotherDimensionTheartofOrnaBenShoshan
A very cool and original book about the art of Orna Ben-Shoshan and the artist herself. Her art is somewhat surreal and somewhat not. She is an artists in the 2000’s, yet her oil paintings contain almost cartoonesque medieval figures and colours. The appeal, for me anyway, is that in each painting there is something…
What’s with all the Turkey Posts today?
Good morning, all! As I was scrolling through my email, instagram and followed blogs this morning, I began noticing a common theme: Turkeys. Turkeys?!? Why? Did I miss something or somehow otherwise pull a Rip Van Winkle last night? You know, go to bed in October with all the ghouls and spooky stuff, Wake up…
Wedding guests confess: What happened at a wedding that tipped you off that it wouldn’t last?
I’ve heard some funny, and some totally horrific stories that tipped off friends and family that the nuptials weren’t made to last. Reddit, also made a post asking this question and received approx 12,000 responses! If you want a good true-life horror, click here to read some of the reader responses! I am posting a…
Morbidly Mortal or Blessed by Time?
In light of todays’ bombings in Brussels, I decided to publish this post. We live in a world where it is becoming an increasingly common story to wake up, round up the family for breakfast, head off to work thinking of the days tasks ahead of us and never expecting the unexpected to happen. Sadly,…
Senseless ramblings about love
Oh yea, here we go…A rambling, somewhat indecipherable post about love, chemicals, insanity and the like. I guess we can start by asking ourselves: What IS love? (apparently the most searched phrase on google in 2012…some senseless trivia knowledge for you) Is it chemistry? Is it Hollywood? Is it a natural drive to reproduce and…
