World Population Ratios If Earth’s population were shrunk into a village of just 100 people, with all the human ratios existing in the world still remaining, what would this tiny, diverse village look like? (NOTE: This is traveling the Internet, wrongly attributed to a certain professor at a West Coast university medical school, who asked… Continue reading World Population Ratios
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The PUREST DEMOCRACY
Sermon on the Dedication of 5th Marine Division Cemetery On Iwo Jima By Chaplain Roland B. Gittelsohn THIS IS PERHAPS THE GRIMMEST, and surely the holiest, task we have faced since D-Day. Here before us lie the bodies of comrades and friends. Men who until yesterday or last week laughed with us, trained with us. Men who… Continue reading The PUREST DEMOCRACY
Six Rules for Clear Verbal Communications
Six Rules for Clear Verbal Communication By Carol Ann Wilson This strange-sounding formula stands for “Six Rules for Clear Verbal Communication.” Studies have shown that people’s greatest fear (after the dentist, of course) is public speaking. This formula will work in all cases, whether it’s a report at a legal secretaries meeting, a presentation to… Continue reading Six Rules for Clear Verbal Communications
Self-Defense for Women
Self-Defense for Women Author Unknown (found as an Internet traveler) I [the unknown sender of this message] just finished taking the most amazing self_defense class, sponsored by Shandwick, and I wanted to share some really valuable info with you before it goes out of my head. The guy who taught the class has a female… Continue reading Self-Defense for Women
Quotes Worth Framing
Quotes Worth Framing Gathered by: Carol Ann Wilson Did you ever hear something and think, “Boy, I wish I’d said that!”? I’ve come across these excellent quotes from minds far greater than mine, and I wanted to keep them all in one place. They deal with individualism and its virtues. They also deal with things have brought… Continue reading Quotes Worth Framing
No Trick in this Treat
NO TREAT IN THIS TRICK! By Carol Ann Wilson Halloween 1996. I rushed home to be there for all the little (and some big) trick-or- treaters. (I always get teenagers as well as tykes.) It’s one of my favorite nights, and I canceled going to an adult costume party to be able to make the precious… Continue reading No Trick in this Treat
Musings About “Monies”
MUSINGS ABOUT “MONIES” By Carol Ann Wilson I fail to see why lawyers insist on writing the plural of “money” like this. The plural “attornies” would be amiss and even the most rigid would boo and hiss. Yet documents galore in offices and courts, talk about “monies” in contracts and torts. Whenever I see it, I just… Continue reading Musings About “Monies”
CARB-AVOIDER’S HANDBOOK
BREAST CANCER, An Alternative Treatment SUSIE’S STORY
BREAST CANCER, An Alternative Treatment SUSIE’S STORY By Carol A. Wilson A routine mammogram is followed by the words no woman wants to hear: “It’s cancer. It’s malignant. All the surrounding tissue is pre-cancerous. You need a total mastectomy and radiation.” What does a woman do when she hears that? “But they never take the whole breast anymore,” she… Continue reading BREAST CANCER, An Alternative Treatment SUSIE’S STORY