Ideas

Just Talking About Science-Fiction By, Melissa R. Mendelson When I was a kid, I would curl up on the couch with my parents and watch “The Twilight Zone,” “Outer Limits,” and “Amazing Stories.” For a holiday gift, my father gave ...
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Ten Years Is A Wonderful Life by, Melissa R. Mendelson If a television show makes it into its tenth year, then that show should re-enact the scene from “It’s A Wonderful Life,” where George goes running through the streets, wishing ...
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A Jolt of Kola by, Melissa R. Mendelson Recently, I had a bad health scare.  I had found a lump.  The doctor said that I had to have a mammography done plus sonogram, which I did.  The results were not ...
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Movie Review: The 9th Life of Louis Drax by, Melissa R. Mendelson They say that a mind is a terrible thing to waste.  Yet, we waste ours on mindless television, mediocre tasks at work, mind-numbing commutes, listening to endless babble ...
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"Music and art allow us to enter an inner world of emotions that go beyond words, a way to survive, a new language that gives us a new way to express ourselves." ...
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"It's too bad the people who really know how to run the country are so busy cutting hair and driving taxis." - George Burns ...
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"Every day could be spent listening to and reading the work of those who agree with me = Drinking one’s own bathwater." ...
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt ...
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“Pain throws your heart to the ground, love turns the whole thing around.” ...
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"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." - Thomas Jefferson ...
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