This Week 7’s (12.14 – 12.31) Affirmation: Mindfulness – I will reach for mindfulness each day.
Date – 12.26.17
B-Book 44: Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
The key message in this book: Often we stop dead in our tracks …
First category I added when I started this blog many moons ago. I jot stuff here I can't otherwise categorize.
The section you will see a swear or two in. Not that I am a big fan, but sometimes situation can't be helped
Here you will find books that I have read, reading or intend to read. More Recent Reads => CLICK HERE.
I intend to use this area to catalog my writing journey and collect tidbits of information on the authoring process.
These are areas I am very much interested in. From time to time, as I am so moved, I free think here as well
Somalia Famine Finally Captures the News Cycle
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Today’s New York Times devotes two-thirds of its front page above the fold to a horrific picture in color of a malnourished Somali child in a Mogadishu hospital. It caps a detailed and …
HIV epidemics emerging in Middle East, North Africa: study
Epidemics of HIV are emerging among gay and bisexual men in the Middle East and North Africa and high levels of risky sexual behavior threaten to spread the AIDS virus further in the region, researchers …
Rupe’s Year of the Body: PhII-Day 54(W3) – C/A
Sort of a soft abs day. Â Did add quite a few reps, but the intensity was not typical. Â I kinda sense a bit of sluggishness creeping into my game. Â A part of it has to …
Can chewing more help you eat less?
A new study finds that people who chew their food more take in fewer calories, which may help them control their weight.
Chewing food 40 times instead of a typical 15 times caused study participants to …
Countdown To 7 Billion: A Tale Of Two Worlds
The United Nations says that sometime around Halloween the seven-billionth person will be born into this world — most likely in India, which is on track to overtake China as the most populous nation in …
Putting an Antebellum Myth to Rest
Was slavery an idyllic world of stable families headed by married parents? The recent controversy over “The Marriage Vow,†a document endorsed by the Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, might seem like …
The Secret to Building Wealth Most People Ignore
One of the reasons I believe most people never succeed at reaching financial independence is because they make things too complicated. They invest in elaborate investments they don’t understand, but heard some guy on television …
Rupe’s Year of the Body: PhII-Day 53(M1) – UB1
Took a week off from the gym, but it is game-on again. Â Had a pretty low key work out today…did not try to overwork. Â Hit the upper body and then get a quick elliptical …
25 Ways to Build Your Biceps
For decades, the dumbbell curl has been helping us build bigger biceps—but it also seems to have stripped us of our imagination. After all, how often do you try a new variation of this classic …
Men Confess to Wearing Dirty Undies
Women all over the world have suspected the truth, but now the dirty laundry secret is out – many men DO wear the same pair of underwear more than once in a week.
The Clorox Company …
The Vitamin that Protects Your Brain
Sure, you drink your orange juice and eat your vegetables (sometimes). But one in 10 men are still vitamin C deficient, according to the Centers for Disease Control. And unexpected new research shows vitamin C …
Relaxing and Staying Cool!
Well, not really….
So last Friday, at command PT we had soccer on the menu.  Being a fervent  soccer fan myself, I just could not wait to get out there and show a few moves from …
Woman faces trial for fake testicles
The police chief of a small South Carolina town will ask a jury to decide if a woman broke the state’s obscenity laws by driving a pickup truck with plastic testicles hanging from the back.
Bonneau …
DoD panel calls for radical retirement overhaul
A sweeping new plan to overhaul the Pentagon’s retirement system would give some benefits to all troops and phase out the 20-year cliff vesting system that has defined military careers for generations.
In a massive change …
How to Approach Any Woman
A new study in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin confirms what everyone who went to high school already knows: Attractive, strong guys are more likely to be extroverts.
Good-looking men and women are often rewarded with …
Richer Countries Have Higher Depression Rates
Richer Countries Have Higher Depression Rates:Â Â Study Shows U.S. Has World’s Second Highest Depression Rate
Depression rates around the world vary according to a nation’s affluence, with the highest income countries — including the U.S. — reporting …
Going Through the Emotions
The world can be a beautiful place, full of possibilities and life. You can feel invincible and in control. But it’s not always like that, is it? The world can also be a stressful, upsetting, …
To People Who Haven’t Saved Anything Yet
Author: Carl Richards of The New York Times
We often hear about the importance of starting to save early. Usually the examples are focused on saving whatever you can when you’re in your 20s to take …
10 Ways to Get More Sex
We got women to confess what makes a man irresistible. Follow these tips to become that guy.
1. Play the Name Game
“Say my name, often. It makes me feel as though you’re totally focused on me.”
2. Pay Up
“Be generous when …
Rupe’s Year of the Body: PhII-Day 52(F22) – Soccer
 So today I decided to play a bit of soccer, in lieu of my typical workout. Now, this is the first time I have played soccer in quite a while and it was sort of …
Rupe’s Year of the Body: PhII-Day 51(Th21) – C/AB
Well, kind of a soft cardio/abs workout I must admit. I really did not commit to this workout, but I did get in a pretty good cardio portion though. I will have to workout through …
Oh My Lion!!!
Okay, I am not one to be too overly excited about much, but when it comes to my MacBook , IMac, IPOD or IPAD,  I must shamelessly admit, I simply cannot get enough. Why am …
Translate Her Sounds
Deciphering what she wants in bed is like uncovering the mystery of the Sphinx—only more difficult. Especially considering a recent Johns Hopkins University study, reporting that women often struggle to express what they want in …
6 Sex Mistakes Women Make
Ladies, be honest: when your sex life becomes a little humdrum, out comes the mental catalogue of all the ways your partner isn’t quite measuring up. Guys tend to get a bad rap when it …
Men's Top 7 Abdominal Training Mistakes
You exercise extra hard for “six-pack†abs, but no matter how much sweat you produce, you are not seeing the outcome that you are after. It’s hard to lose abdominal fat, if you are not …
All About Artificial Sweeteners
Do you feel like you are surrounded by sweets? Cookies, ice-cream, candy, soda and other sugary treats are everywhere, along with the extra calories and simple carbohydrates they contain. For people with diabetes and those …
Rupe’s Year of the Body: PhII-Day 50(M18) – LB
One of the better leg workout that I have had in a long time. I think I got through most of the workout without much issue, although I started to tire at the end. I …
Somalis Flee Drought
DADAAB, Kenya — The people start trudging in at dawn, more than a thousand every day, exhausted, sick and starving, materializing out of the thin desert air to take their places at the gates of …
My DareBee Journey
