Christmas Gifts? No Problem
There are other reasons too: a carefully chosen book for someone you love or in any way is special to you is as personal as a kiss. A book is a hug with every page turned.
PERSEVERANCE
PERSEVERANCE . When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to sigh, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit – Rest […]
SO, WHERE DID KAMALA DISAPPEAR TO
Last week, The New York Times reported that the vice president had become the first Democratic presidential candidate in 20 years to lose the national popular vote. The newspaper noted that Ms. Harris had lost all key states to President-elect Donald Trump despite spending $1.5 billion in 15 weeks of campaigning.
All Men who Enter Here Ye are Doomed
Those of us on wife two or three, regret to inform you that they are all the same; live with it. If you find one that says she doesn’t like shopping you can wipe the stupid grin off your face.
All Bear the Pain of the Deathbed Blues
The lesson here is to do as Mark Twain suggested: ‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.’
A Taxi Ride and Heaven is the First Stop
We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl. Sometimes she’d ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
Would you buy a Porsche for $20?
‘Well,’ the woman says, not looking up from her garden. ‘This morning I got a phone call from my husband. I thought he was on a business trip in Florida, but it seems he has run off to Hawaii with his secretary and doesn’t intend to come back.’
Sanctions sends European Industry into Freefall
In the meantime, over the year, deliveries of passenger cars from China to Russia have grown by more than 32%. In the first ten months of 2024, passenger car deliveries from China to Russia increased by almost a third and exceeded $12 billion.
The Secret of the Collapse of the Roman Empire Revealed
A paradox? This does not indicate the disappearance of trade, but a sharp decline in volume. Places where life had once buzzed – from Naples to Carthage – became deserted. Rome lost its trading ‘lungs’, and with them the ability to breathe deeply.
THE SECOND CASUALTY OF WAR
According to the International Press Institute (IPI), a total of 100 journalists were killed in 2010. This figure is only marginally lower than the previous year when 110 were slain. The year 2011 figures were much higher and have been soaring ever since with the deadliest zones being Jewish Occupied Palestine, Pakistan, Iraq and Libya.
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