We’ve been with Aetna for my personal life insurance for almost 15 years, in fact, it’s how I pretty much ended up dating my wife who tried unsuccessfully to sell me a life insurance policy. She did, in the end. But she had to pay the first premium herself! She wasn’t a good sales agent…
This gold is 24K, quite soft, very yellow! And prized by Taiwanese for its value! You can see it flaunted at celebrations such as the traditional wedding banquet where the bride literally ‘drips’ gold. Usually, some of the gold is presented to them, some is kept as part of the family wealth, and some may…
At school, and because the weather is now very nice, we’ve been hosting a couple of picnics this year. It’s a very practical, straightforward affair for which we buy most of what we need, including fruit, fried chicken, cookies, and something to drink. Since our car is quite small, we can’t carry a lot of…
Who cares about diets? Really I mean… who cares? Most diets don’t work, they really don’t because of a faulty assumption: that as soon as the diet is over, normal life can return, and normal habits, too. Most diets just don’t address this crucial issue: to diet successfully you must change your habits permanently. So…
There was a recent report I featured on this blog about diets. Perhaps you didn’t see it. Anyway, it suggested that most diets whatever aspect they were trying to control would work as long as the general result was to reduce over calorie (or in some cases, carbohydrate) count. The biggest factor in our failure…
Google’s recently launched the new archive of Time Life Photos with lots of photographs from the earlier part of the 20th Century. You’ll find images that have rarely been seen by the general public. So enjoy. And thank you, Google and Time Life!
When I was back in the UK, just a few days ago, and passing through Heathrow, the first impression I had was that UK people were always going away. It’s funny – I had just come back and the advertisements were all encouraging me to get out of the country to Spain for a weekend…
This story is one that was featurd on BBC News/Worldwide yesterday around lunchtime: The Story of the/a Container Box. The BBC says: BBC News embarks on a unique project telling the story of international trade by tracking a shipping container around the world for a year. The idea is devilishly simple: follow the box around…
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” Bruce Lee