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How I got here. Part One. -
Rev. Andre Brink (0)   
Rev. Andre Brink  
It was January in 1962, still summer in 32 Motor Street , Westdene Johannesburg.. Marie gets the news that she is pregnant again. This is the seventh baby on it way, after the loss of triplets before her last child. She feels very despondent and does not know what to do. Her husband is very... ( added 17 days 20 hours ago.) |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Confronting the Ghost in the Mirror. -
Mike Fak (5,733)  
Mike Fak 
I appreciate the feedback on my last article. I received a great deal of e-mail privately from people who did not want their comments in the public domain and I am fine with that. I enjoy chatting whether publicly or privately. For the most part the conversations were about finding a balance... ( added 241 days 14 hours ago.) |
Privacy! Can You Hear Me Now? -
Tex Norman (4,228) 
Tex Norman
Once upon a time, people seemed to care about privacy. The need for privacy seems to have faded as a need for most of us, and I have proof. Consider my own brief history of the telephone.
The Party Line
When I was a kid, back in the 1950s, our first phone was a party line . If you are... ( added 302 days 15 hours ago.) |
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My Time with Royalty (autobio) -
Robin Brown (2,529)  
If you would like to experience a journey which will be hard to believe, then sit back, kick off your shoes and enjoy. First off, my life has been blessed to have traveled the globe to meet so many incredible people. I am currently 52 years of age but seems as though I've lived 3 or 4 lifetimes... ( added 48 days ago.) |
My Life In 1967 -
 - David Pekrul (3,688)  
David Pekrul
I wrote this little bio in 2005. The year was 1967, and I was in Grade 11, with one more year to go. It was the day of the Hippie, the flower child, Make love, not war, you know, all that stuff. But I was a country boy, never did like the Beatles, thought the flower children were a little... ( added 279 days 3 hours ago.) |
Mentor, Father, and Memories: A Memoir Sketch -
Tex Norman (4,228)
Tex Norman
King Odysseus, leaving for war, asked his friend Mentor, to look after his young son. A mentor is someone who helps another learn the ways of the world or specific tasks. . . . Many successful people are open to sharing with a protg. . .
Bridges out of Poverty by Ruby Payne, Philip DeVol... ( added 350 days 13 hours ago.) |
How The Atlantic Monthly Changed My Life -
- Tex Norman (4,228)
Tex Norman
Little choices, and unexpected encounters can have big, life long, life changing consequences. When I was raised, my father only had a high school education, my mother dropped out of high school at age 17 because she was pregnant with me. They were two people from the same blackbelt... ( added 1 year 38 days ago.) |
The Secret Of The Ring - A Military Secret Society -
Mark Parsec (15,071)  
Mark Parsec
It was 1985 and I was working at the Office of the Adjutant General for the State Military Department in Sacramento, California, when I found myself suddenly thrust into the midst of a tumultuous divorce. Constituents at this time were proposing opportunities for me to relocate and after having... ( added 1 year 127 days ago.) |
Hillary’s New Autobiography Is Out –- From Poverty-Stricken Spaghetti Farm To the White House -
Marty RicKard (2,688) 
Marty RicKard
Hillary's new autobiography is just out and it is astonishing. She truly is an amazing human who rose from poverty to unfathomable wealth. She tells about her life in this new book. She describes her father's early years battling to feed his family on a small spaghetti farm, where he developed a... ( added 1 year 215 days ago.) |
My Time With ZZ Top (autobio) -
- Robin Brown (2,529)
This is for all you old school rock and rollers out there.This is a story which has surfaced again after 20 years or so, so, this is my favorite rock and roll piece. A couple of years ago, I was working as the oldest bartender to ever work at a Hard Rock Cafe. I don’t know that as a cold hard... ( added 1 year 308 days ago.) |
My Time With French Aristocrats (autobio) -
- Robin Brown (2,529)
On a beautiful spring evening in Paris, my friend and I were arriving to a dinner party to celebrate a French philosopher's new book that just hit Parisian bookstores that day. We made our way to this elegant apartment in the 8th arrondissemont of the city. When we entered the apartment, we said... ( added 1 year 309 days ago.) |
Incredible Help When Faced With Divorce -
- Marijo Phelps (2,734) 
Marijo Phelps
The year had been a really rough one. Divorce, that I never dreamed would happen, did. I ended up doing what secular counselors would say was terribly unwise. After prayer, I felt that the Lord was leading me into short term missions which meant moving away from my good friends and church home... ( added 71 days 16 hours ago.) |
Spiritual Cold Turkey (autobio) -
- Robin Brown (2,529)
After twenty years of smoke inhalation, I have arrived to my new existence without nicotine. Am I merely standing in line as I enter this new world only to begin this addictive habit once again? What is different within my spirit which seems to be unlike any other time in my past existence? This... ( added 1 year 273 days ago.) |
Performing "Internal Rhyme" at The Black Rep Theater (autobio) -
- Robin Brown (2,529)
I would like to share how a particular piece of my internal rhyming poetry came about. It was one of my most tender of moments and I didn't even know why until it was all said and done. Since I am a performing Spoken Word performance artist who has performed around the San Francisco bay area, I... ( added 1 year 297 days ago.) |
My Time with Dr. Kent Weeks and Ramesses II in Egypt (autobio) -
- Robin Brown (2,529)
Stories themselves either emanate from a creatively fertile imagination or from a flat out personal experience. Stories from a personal experience can sometimes shift ever so slightly to create a small personal miracle. This is one of those stories and it didn't hurt that I was traveling with a... ( added 1 year 303 days ago.) |
Working Stunt Shows at Universal Studios Hollywood (autobio) -
- Robin Brown (2,529)
It’s the summer of 1991 and I’m siting on Ventura Blvd. in Studio City killing time before having to go to work at Universal Studios where I am performing as “Brett Taylor" in the live action stunt show, “The Universal Studios Riot Act Stunt Show". This stunt show is my second live action... ( added 1 year 313 days ago.) |
Katrina Hurricane or The Ordeal in Hell -
Raphael Obermann (16) 
The Nuclear Strike or Katrina Hurricane, the Disconcerted Devil, August 29, 2005 No one by far expected this type of hurricane of biblical proportions all the more so that many previous hurricane warnings were not at all what it was expected. On Saturday morning august 27 I turned on the TV left... ( added 3 years 279 days ago.) |
Worms at half-Time -
- Maxine Headd (318)
It was in the early summer of 1965. We had cleaned a half field of cotton that day, by chopping the rows of a field of cotton. We were taking two rows at a time to make an honest effort to clear this field. We had another field, the owner also wanted to be cleared before the beginning of next... ( added 116 days 12 hours ago.) |
Meeting our Cousins -
- Maxine Headd (318)
Ronnie Lynn and I had strung a wire between two Cottonwood trees. We were using that as our swing. We had draped the long heavy black wire between the two trees, so that we could sit down in the middle of it, and swing as far out as we could. The Cottonwood trees had some very large leaves that... ( added 116 days 12 hours ago.) |
A Repeat of WHAT IF -
- Robin Brown (2,529)
What if you could have attempted to share a special experience with another only to have the other either not believe you or believe you to be bragging one brother to another? What if you could have learned to share just one selected special event and leave it there and end to exclaim... "And... ( added 1 year 262 days ago.) |
From Guard To Guardian -
Al Bermudez Pereira (18) 
Al Bermudez Pereira
As a former prison guard, Al Bermudez Pereira reflects on the lessons he learned at Sing Sing that drove him to make a difference in the lives of inmates--and be a better father to his own sons.
"Thanks for doing this for my father, He deserves it."
Perhaps the greatest testament to a... ( added 2 years 157 days ago.) |
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