Running a 10K…

…that’s 6.2 miles for us Americans.

Bogie has been running regularly for about two years now.  He used to run in high school, but that is many moons ago.  He has been training recently for a 10K run with a group at the university where I work.  Well the race was this past weekend…

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Goats…

…you heard me, I said goats.

One of the blogs that I travel to is bleedingespresso.com.  The blog was created by an American living in Italy, in her family’s ancestral village.  It is a wonderful story.  If you would like to read about it just click on over.

Michele, (aka bleedingespresso) has goats.  The [...]

Sometimes people surprise you…

…in a good way.

I recently applied for a different job at the university where I work.  I interviewed and was offered the job.  Now for the hard part.  I agonized all last weekend over how to tell my current boss that I was leaving.  It is a lateral move with a slight increase [...]

Hyper-Realistic Acrylic Body Painting

by Alexa Meade

Her painting technique pushes the boundaries of perception, compressing 3D space into a 2D plane, effectively blurring the lines between art and life. The living paintings series is her spin on reality. By wrapping her subject in a mask of paint, she skews [...]

10 Technologies that will change your life.

9 Gene Therapy and/or Stem Cells

A lot of maladies actually involve inherited conditions-they’re in your genes, in other words. But scientists are working to change those genes and trick defective cells into growing correctly. Perhaps, someday, birth defects will be as treatable as pneumonia.

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