When was the last time you wrote a whole paragraph about how a piece of cheese tasted?
Here’s Michael Paterniti’s description after tasting an artisanal cheese in The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese:
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Here’s Michael J. Fox, a famous actor, with his take on his debilitating and life-threatening medical condition:
Read MoreParkinson’s has made me a better person. . . . Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.
Have you read or viewed Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
You’ll find a wonderfully ironic scene in chapter XVIII. The setting is an elaborate ball. All are dressed beautifully and are on their best behavior. The dancing is organized in lines or circles, much like square dancing but much more sedate.
Against this metered backdrop we see the two main characters, Elizabeth and Darcy, dancing with each other—and arguing the whole time:
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Do you have an old spy drone or aerial photography drone lying around? You know, those unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can be as tiny as a dragonfly or as large as small airplane.
The folks at Philadelphia’s Manayunk Cleaners have one. They’re using their pre-owned drone to deliver dry-cleaned clothes to their customers. Sure, they can only deliver one shirt at a time, but it’s the novelty that counts.
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No, this isn’t a fun-loving film about Caribbean pirates and Johnny Depp. I’m talking about real pirates with lethal weapons who board your boat, take you captive, kill your crew, and hold you for ransom. That kind of pirate. They’re very real, and they’re very active off the shores of South America and Africa.
Being captured by real pirates is exactly what happened to Captain Richard Phillips in 2009. Captain Phillips is a movie of his harrowing experience, featuring Tom Hanks as Captain Phillips.
What did Phillips think of his experience? In a Parade interview, Phillips says this about fear
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