Every person has experiences that no one else has. Even if other people have gone through the same things, their viewpoint of it will differ. These articles are meant to entertain and to be used as references in your writing.
My encounters with birds have been few. Except for me saving the birds that have smacked into my windows from my outdoor cat, who probably would have loved to attack them, most of these encounters have not ended well.
I woke up this morning with a mouse in my bed. A mouse isn’t something I want in my bedroom, especially not in my bed. Granted, it was already dead, and that is preferable to it being alive and running around. I’m assuming it was already dead when it ended up under the covers. And at least it wasn’t right next to me. Still, I will be changing my sheets today.
Let’s say you own a business and are looking to hire customer service people. You would want to hire people who could understand the customer’s wants and aggravations. You would want to hire those who could really help your customers out. UPS has not done so. They used to but not anymore.
I first arrived in Japan in the spring of ’84 to take up a job I had got while completing my doctorate on 18th century English literature at Edinburgh University. I had been hired as a “Guest Professor of English” by a new university located in a fishing village in northern Shikoku. Shikoku is one of Japan’s four main islands, but it is also the smallest, the most rural and, at that time – before the construction of bridges linking it to Honshu and Kyushu – the most remote.
I was between jobs, between schools, between lives when I walked into the small dojo in Grant’s Pass, Oregon, in 1978.
Like Catalina in my novel 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑒, I love the ocean! Although until I learned to scuba dive, I was somewhat afraid of its mysterious depths and what could be lurking below the water’s surface.
The residents of Barrow, Alaska, don’t see the sun for the 67 days of polar night, but during the summer months, the midnight sun gives them 80 days of continuous sunlight. What is it like to live in this city at the top of the world?
The old queen doesn’t believe the soaking wet ragamuffin who has appeared at her door is a princess, but she knows how to find out.
Amanda Jayne’s hunger for traveling has filled her life with death-defying adventure. From riding on the edges of cliffs in rickety buses to having a tummy bug in the unbearable cold while climbing a mountain to falling out of a boat for the rapids to throw her any which way they pleased to being stricken…
What did the author do when she was charged by a wild boar? Has she ever taken a cat on an adventure with her? If she could change what happened on any of the trips she’s taken, would she? 1) The adventures you write about in the book are far more than most people have…
