Category: Culture & Community

There are simple tips that woman should know about self defense and street safety.

"Criminals plan to attack someone who they think is weak or vulnerable. To counter this, women must have a plan too." says Fred Degerberg author of 101 Self Defense and Safety Tips. Go to www.DegerbergAcademyofMartialArts.com to download it for free.

Family relationships and community issues are at the heart of Mother's Day.

In its ongoing discussion about family relationships and issues related to marriage, women and children, Vision.org tells the surprising story of how the original intent of Mother's Day and modern celebrations differ, and how the latest brain research may change why we celebrate it in the future.

sTaRe Network Active Media, a distributor of quality arts and letters via new mediums, announced today the acquisition of a verified Illuminati manuscript entitled The Number 23, written by the recently deceased Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 -- January 11, 2007).

Not Enough Time In the Day? Learn From A Sea Turtle. by John P. Strelecky Author of The Why Café

As strange as it may sound, we can learn a great deal about how to prioritize our lives by taking a few moments and watching a sea turtle. That may sound crazy, but it’s true. Sometimes major life lessons come from the most unlikely of sources. When it comes to prioritization, sea turtles are experts.

My Perfect Mess by Nancy Roman Excerpt from The Right Words at the Right Time Volume 2 by Marlo Thomas

I had a rotten fifth grade. Although I made good grades, worked hard, was quiet and mostly obedient, Sister Saint Therese du Divine Coeur hated messy. And I was so messy.

Back in the ‘60s, there was a common belief among the more cosmic hippies that the social historians had it wrong when they said that we humans elevated ourselves from primitive status some seven to ten thousand years ago and began slowly working towards the eventual goal of creating the U.S. Constitution, Ford automobiles and the Windows operating system. According to this theory, humans had developed a highly advanced technological society in the past, long before the dawn of known pre-history, but had somehow managed to destroy their civilization by misusing their technology.

The Sphinx stands guard over the Pyramids at Giza. How old is it really?

They say that you should be careful about meeting people on the Internet, that you never know what kind of person you're likely to meet in cyberspace. Well, I'm here to tell that's true. I know, from first hand experience, there's all sorts of people cruising around on the electronic super highway. People like Geneva Kachman, writer and publisher of The Traveling Menstrual Show, a book of poems that are all about...er, menstruation. But that was 1999’s project. By this time last year, she was busy getting a new holiday off the ground, Menstrual Monday, a holiday that celebrates the...well, I think you probably get the picture. Now it’s time for Menstrual Monday 2001.

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Back in 1969, when I was hanging-out on the corner of St. Marks Place and Second Avenue in the East Village of New York, I heard stories about a group called the Diggers that’d existed in the Haight in the early days of hippiedom. Even though the group had only ceased to exist a year earlier, already they had become a counter culture myth that was shrouded in mystery. They fed the street kids, engaged in street theater and invented the free store, which became a mainstay in hippie communities in the late 60s. Many believed that the whole movement of heads and freaks that grew on the streets of San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district was a direct result of the actions taken by the mostly anonymous Diggers.

In 1969, Abbie Hoffman lived in a modest ground floor apartment on Sixth Street, just off Second Avenue, in New York’s East Village. This fact wasn’t hidden from anyone. The apartment opened onto the stoop and, in a slot below the buzzer button, there was a card where his name had been written with a ball point pen, presumably in his handwriting.

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Time is a funny thing. Not only does it serve the positive function of healing wounds, it also erases memories that shouldn’t be forgotten. I was treated to an example of this a few months back while conversing with a student at the school library where I’m employed.