Keeping your cockatiel healthy Consider your bird’s cook, caterer, housekeeper and taxi service for yourself. You can help your cockatiel live longer by providing healthy food, clean living conditions, and a trip to the vet if necessary. Cockatoos are generally healthy unless kept in dirty, crowded conditions or given improperly. Provide filtered sunlight during the […]
Category: Pets
The forgotten factor in coping with the death of a loved one
No one is immune to the sad experience of mourning the death of a loved one. However, until death comes into our lives and an important person is no longer with us, our culture teaches us to deny death and minimize its impact on quality of life. Then, if we’re lucky, we get a crash […]
Hurricane Season in Florida
I wrote this article last year as hurricane after hurricane hit Florida. It’s hurricane season. This year the season has turned ugly for the state of Florida. “There are no seasons in Florida,” they say. But now we can say that there are two distinct seasons in Florida: the hurricane season and the non-hurricane season. […]
Cultural differences in communication style: why Arabs are not effective communicators in Estonia
We all know that our success in life largely depends on how good communicators we are. New immigrants often believe that just learning vocabulary and grammar makes them effective communicators in Estonia and solves all problems. However, in the long run they notice that they have misunderstandings and conflicts all over the place. Observing the […]
Metaphors in the soup pot
If it’s fall, it’s soup time! Autumn calls us to come in, get those wool and warm socks out of the bottom drawer. When it gets dark earlier in the day, call the soup. The story of good soup, in its early round pots or in today’s gleaming, fully clad, flat-bottomed marques, remains a favorite […]
In defense of bookworms
Avid readers, who prefer reading to engaging in other leisure activities such as watching television or playing sports, are often subject to a multitude of prejudices. Common misperceptions about those who love to read are that they are antisocial; they are also often referred to as the most boring people on the block and maligned […]
Skiatook Lake in Oklahoma
Skiatook Lake is located on Highway 20, 4 miles west of the town of Skiatook and 11 miles east of Hominy, Oklahoma, about an hour’s drive from Tulsa. This beautiful lake is surrounded by gently rolling hills of Blackjack, Post Oak and Tallgrass meadows. Skiatook Lake is approximately 10,500 acres in area and has 160 […]
Golfing is great in the Northwest corner of the United States
The natural beauty and creative golf courses in the Northwest corner of the United States will test the skills of most golfers. Forested hills, large trees, rugged lava fields, sagebrush-filled ravines, wetlands, beautiful lakes, rivers and desert outcrops are part of the landscapes of golf courses in Oregon and Washington. Washington golfers see it all […]
Obesity in America – The Growing Epidemic!
Obesity is a disease that affects approximately 60 million people in the United States, with women being especially affected. More than a third of women between the ages of 20 and 74 are obese, most of them African-American or Mexican-American. With more and more prepackaged foods and less and less activity, the number of obese […]
The history of bankruptcy student loans
Student loans are basically non-dischargeable, almost everyone knows that. There are some very specific circumstances where even today you can pay off your student loan debt, but that is a small exception that often requires a fight and money to fight. We will discuss the current state of downloadability in a future post. The landscape […]