The term “obesity” describes human body weight considered to be unhealthy  according to certain clinical parameters.  Based upon body mass charts, these parameters are calculated using the heights and genders of non-obese individuals as standards for good health.  When a human being ingests food, the body converts it into glucose (a form of sugar), which [...]

And, it almost wasn’t!

Alabama-based The Legendary Shots (http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Legendary-Shots/236911282021) was attempting the longest basketball shot ever made.  High atop a platform near the top of Birmingham’s Vulcan monument 134 feet from the ground, Evan Sellers of the group tried shot after shot.  10 minutes before the two hour limit the monument’s staff had allotted, Evans made [...]

In the days of the majestic tall ships, when Britannia ruled the waves, a mysterious set of circumstances occurred that would forever change, and indeed enhance, the color of the English language.  Several English merchant ships bound for the Colonies with supplies never reached their port of call.  The Bermuda Triangle lay hundreds of miles [...]

Although not celebrities whose public faux pas, such as wardrobe malfunctions, are exposed on national TV, we’ve all suffered our share of bloopers.  Who among us has not exited a public restroom with toilet paper trailing behind us or stuck beneath our shoes?  Have your pants ever split, or worse, at an inopportune moment?  Maybe you [...]

Playing dress up is one of life’s little guilty pleasures.  Almost every little girl has surreptiously ransacked her mother’s belongings in order to appropriate them, usually on rainy days when we were bored, or when our mothers’ backs were turned.  Who can forget the slightly forbidden thrill of easing open our moms’ closets to select [...]

The other day a co-worker reiterated the title of the old Phil Collins song to me, Just Another Day in Paradise.  As the theme of the tune revolved around the impoverished, my colleague’s statement was as sarcastic as the song title, for he was having a rotten day.  His cynicism prompted me to examine some [...]

What are holes?  Webster defines a hole as “an opening in something” such as in a doughnut, the ground, clouds, et al.  But this definition does not fully clarify the concept of holes, for it suggests nothingness, a rip in the atmosphere, if you will.  Perceived another way, holes are actually niches in which to [...]

In the world of business, the adage, “It Pays to Advertise” still rings like a battle cry across the landscape of consumer spending.  Thus, was an entire industry born to promote a dizzying array of products and services.  Print ads, including those featured in almanacs, billboards, and all manner of publications got a boost via, [...]

As the world teeters on the brink of a financial collapse and the media heralds the impending doom, the unemployed masses are forced to consider their fate.  The rich don’t give a rat’s rump about the common man or the common woman, and our government fiddles while Rome, New York and every other town except [...]

While many Americans concern themselves with the blatant disregard for the U.S. Constitution demonstrated by liberal Democrats in attempting to ram healthcare reform legislation through Congress, the news from Rome is even more shocking!

In the most sweeping changes to Roman Catholic worship since The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (more commonly known as Vatican II), Pope [...]