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Paris, France89

Can a woman travel alone through Europe?

Last year for the spring semester, I studied abroad in Rome, Italy. A magical experience, I traveled for the first time out of the country to somewhere other than Canada. Hopping the pond alone to Europe...

3 comments    travel alone travelling
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10 Reasons Why You Should Do Ballet

Are you a discombobulated, maladroit, tactless slob? Do you like listening to classical or soothing music? Have you dreamt of being less clumsy and more charming? Then you’re in luck, because today I’m...

6 comments    arts dance dancing
A view of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.  In this series of paintings Michelangelo depicted more prophets then most people know the name of.  The Sybil is holding the book in the bottom left corner.  She was among many prophets who predic71

2012: The Doomsday Predictions

Have you heard the talk about 2012? No not the next presidential election in 2012. People keep saying “Oh, the world’s coming to an end in 2012!” How do you know? Then I hear it on the other end...

11 comments    religion 2012 predictions
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Must Read Books Of 2008, A Top 10 List... sort of

I’ll attempt to give a list of the top ten best books for 2008 sort of. I say “sort of” because there is definitely more than 10 books that deserve to be reviewed as among the best this year. As if...

4 comments    books 2008 top ten
Silent Back Streets of Venice80

The Importance of Silence, Meditation and Staying Calm

Nature’s wonder is silence. Once when I traveled to the inner city of Venice, Italy I found the most stunning attribute to be its silent streets. Stand in the quiet back alleys; hold your breath and...

2 comments    health life meditation
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It's like Deja Vu all over again...

"It's like deja vu all over again" A famous quote from Yogi Berra. What causes deja vu? I have personally experienced frequent déjà vu. The year after I graduated from high school, I distinctly...

1 comment    life psychology experience
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Foreclosures: Ways to Buy One and Ways to Avoid One

Have you seen a sign in your neighborhood or perhaps on houses that you pass on your daily commute that say “foreclosure” in big red letters? You may assume that it means just another house is for...

1 comment    advice how to finance
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Three recipes for healthy skin and diet

It's easy to forget the importance of our skin because there's just so much of it to take care of. Keeping your skin moisturized and healthy is important considering how you treat yourself is...

1 comment    health food recipes
"The Migrant Mother" or Florence Owen Thompson and her children taken by Dorothea Lange at a camp for unemployed pea pickers.66

The 2nd Great Depression: Insight into the causes of the Economic Crisis

Congratulations. As a tax payer you now own major companies like, the American Intercontinental Group, or AIG. You should be proud, that’s a Fortune 500 company. It was our money, 85 billion...

2 comments    finance money politics
Cat in the Colosseum (Hardly the lion that the Gladiators took on)72

Wild Cats Roaming in Rome

“What is a cat doing here?” I said this to myself as I wandered through the famed Colosseo or Colosseum of Rome. The Colosseum, by the way, is amazing. The collpased wall, the delapitated stone...

2 comments    travel italy rome
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