Tag: Goodbye

The Braun IPL long-lasting laser hair removal device utilizes Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) technology to target hair follicles and inhibit their growth. IPL works by emitting pulses of light that are absorbed by the melanin in the hair, heating up and damaging the follicle to prevent future hair growt...

Read the Thomas Recipe published below for a way to wean yourself off of Opioids. I successfully got off Oxycontin after six years of prescribed use in 2016. I read the recipe and all the warnings so as to be aware of what’s about to happen to my body — and join me as I plunge into th...

I got real sick last week. So sick, in fact, that I quit smoking. Like seriously, I have been smoking on and off for over 30 years. I was really sick. My eyes were like finely chiseled balls of sandpaper rolling on sandpaper. My head felt about the width and breadth of a small continent, all do...

This short story is told from Maracle’s semi-autobiographical point of view. She grew up watching the lands change at Snauq, or Sun’ahk, what we now call False Creek, the narrow inlet in the heart of Vancouver. She shares her vulnerabilities and her pain with us the readers, and as a tea...

The dust had settled and the uncertainties of the previous years after the pandemic started were in crystal clear view. Regardless if you had a plan or not, the world had moved forward and that was the signal to continue your own journey. While we navigated with new and evolved tools, skills, and pe...

One of my close friends stays in Chicago. While I was pursuing PhD in New York, he paid a visit to me. With all my friends we had a great time. This time was different, as back then we were all students. When I visited him, he was staying in Chicago with his family and I was planning to return to In...

She also wants booking information — sorry, Pamela, you’re on your own there! This has to be the time, back in 2019, when our son David went to a games event in Berlin and took me along for the ride. He went off to his sessions and I was free to wander round the city and see everythin...

Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin is a collection of some connected short stories about how Isherwood, once an outsider English teacher living in Berlin, became involved in several people who were threaten by the rise of the Nazis. His friendship began in some simple and subtle way, ye...

Afew weeks ago, we left Barcelona, which has been our home for the past 9 years. Living in a foreign country taught me a lot. If you happen to have an opportunity to change your own life in this way, or you’re thinking of doing so in the future, I highly recommend taking the leap and...