I suppose that just about everyone that lives near a creek or a lake takes a skinny dip at some point with a friend. Its quite a normal and natural thing to do actualy. But at least in Robert's case, he never experienced a skinny dip. With no near by creek, or lake, a skinny dip, at least for him, seemed, a bit out of reach. But life can be surprising at times and can take a strange turn, when you least expect. The girl he worked with, Julie, had invited him...
When you live in New York City, downtown represents, the up and comers, or the new money, as its called. Uptown represents the established and entrenched, the old money as its called. Bob had always worked downtown, he loved the narrow and crowded streets of Wall Street. Loved to grab a kinish or a hot dog from a vendor as he rushed down the bustling streets, reading the latest financial news while speeding down the street. A break from the hectic ...
Doane came forth with a New flurry of attacks almost as though he was taking a whole new fighting style.Shacos sword unoffically deflected each attack as fatigue washed over his entirety.His muscles began to ache with Weariness and Doane finally struck such a blow that would knock shaco off his feet and to the ground left vulerable in which Doane struck and held his sword just behind the boys neck. With one foul stroke doane sheathed his weapon again on a wall and left shaco to his thoughts. ...
A very funny journalist that has a blog called Breakfast At Tiffany's wrote the other day in her famous blog that she was a starving artist living in a closet. Starving I suppose because her very small apartment doesn't even have a stove. But yet her rent is very high. Yet she's happy. Happy, because she's living close to the Stars that she writes about. I could relate to her plight. I to once lived in a very high rent neighborhood. After a hitch in the Navy, I just could...
Recently finished John Stossel's Give Me A Break. John Stossel is co-anchor of ABC's 20/20. It's his segments I have traditionally enjoyed the most because he's always struck me as being fair. He goes after companies, organizations, and even the government if they fit a fairly simple criteria: Are they ripping off Americans?Stossel has been under fire recently which is something that took him a bit by surprise. He started out as being the guy who exposed all those seedy big corporations. The pol...
Ahhh...what a wonderful afternoon. My sister, Tenille, and I went to library. Call me a loser if you like, this is where magic happens. I make my usual route---first to the autobiography section in the back. I pick up books on ancient heros, famous celebrities, and ordinary people who have suffered extraordinary struggles and survived. Some I simply lay back on the shelf without regards to where it lay in the first place. I'm selfish like that. Others catch my attention and I star...
This was the first of two books I read by American conservative journalist Robert Kaplan. It is far and away a superior piece of work than “Soldiers of God” his account of 1980s Afghanistan. Kaplan himself later admitted that he lost his senses of balance, such was his identification with the mujahadeen. His strong anti-communist beliefs coloured his view of the conflict in Afghanistan. His 1993 book “Balkan Ghosts” which examines another part of the “Evil Empire” is however much more nuanc...