I've never trusted the French, not since I sat for my first class in Madame Duvet's 6th grade Introductory French. She kept saying, "Le pouce. Le pouce." That was accompanied by a thumbs up. I didn't get it, but I just nodded my head in agreement with the old, crazy bat. From that moment on …
Tag: science
On the Gentle Art #15
"Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage;" - To Althea, From Prison by Richard Lovelace 1642 A.D. Constraints - life has a lot of them, biological and otherwise (your blood's ph level, the minimum amount of oxygen that you need to breathe, the level of carbon monoxide & carbon dioxide in your …
On the Gentle Art #14
What are you afraid of? Are you scared of things that go bump in the night? Monsters? Demons? Serial-killers? Clowns? Serial-killer clowns? Or worst of all, spiders? Maybe you are the type of person who is scared by the more mundane: heights, water, flying, subway travel, or mystery meat school lunches? (I always stuck with …
On the Gentle Art #13
I must begin this post by offering my sincerest apologies to my readers. I have not written an article in this blog for too long a time, and maybe some of you think that I've caught the Blue-belt Blues. Well, I must admit that I have been battling life for the last couple of months …
J. Manuel 