Entries from January 2008
I was introduced to Jimi Hendrix‘s music when I was a high school senior by my (then) boyfriend, a graduate student at university. Joe (the boyfriend) worshiped Jimi. I worshiped Joe. Read more... (312 words, 6 images, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)
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Tags: Non Fiction
Judge Richard Posner‘s Little Book of Plagiarism (2007), if nothing else, explains a very important concept: Our society’s view of what it original, what is plagiarism, has changed over the centuries.
Posner examines Shakespeare and others’ uses of previous works and posits that such use is not today deemed acceptable. Read more... (279 words, 6 images, estimated 1:07 mins reading time)
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Tags: Non Fiction · Social Psychology
Well, I wouldn’t purport to know how myself as I really am, but His Holiness the Dalai Lama has a very interesting starting point that he explains in How to See Yourself as You Really Are (2006). Read more... (189 words, 2 images, estimated 45 secs reading time)
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Tags: Advice · Emotional Freedom · Health and Happiness
A study of 4,000 illegitimate children born of German mothers by servicemen in the post World War II occupation tested the IQs of 264 children of black service men versus 83 children of white servicemen. The results of this study showed no overall difference in average tested-IQ. (Reported in The Bell Curve p 310.) Read more... (352 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)
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Tags: Emotional Freedom · Social Psychology
Rene Descartes, 17th century philosopher and a founding father of modern Western medicine, made a deal with the Pope in order that he might obtain human cadavers for dissection.
(Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach is a fun read about the medical use of dead bodies.) Read more... (547 words, 4 images, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)
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Tags: Emotional Freedom · Health and Happiness
Claire's Original Art Greeting Cards
There is nothing that says I care like a real snail-mail greeting card!
Click on a picture above for a plain-paper printable greeting card pdf.
Print on regular 8.5 by 11 printer paper. Fold twice so that the art is on the front and the title and copyright are on the back.
Write your greeting on the inside.
Mail in an A2 Invitation Envelope.
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