Looking for something interesting to read this weekend?
Browse through this mixed assortment of recent Purple Star award winning lenses.
I think you’ll find something you like.
1. How I Traveled Looking Wheelchair Fabulous
When I first became very sick, I spent most of my time wearing yoga pants, extra- large t- shirts, and looking like hell. My body was falling apart and I felt more dead than alive. After not getting better and not getting better, I finally took a look in t…
2. History | The Battle of Long Tan
For 3- 1/2 hours on 18th August, 1966, the 108 men of D Company, 6th Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR) faced over 2,500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops in a rubber plantation at Long Tan. During this action, they first endured sweltering conditions an…
3. How To Do Your Family History Research For Free
If you want to start or build on your family tree, free research tools are the perfect way to begin. It is amazing what you can find out when you give your family tree a metaphorical shake and start to delve into the past. Let me share with you some ways t…
If I asked you what was the best day of your life, I wonder what you would answer. Perhaps you would mention the day of your child’s birth, or the day you met the love of your life. For some of you, maybe it was the day your cancer finally went into remiss…
5. Make Essential Oils With An Essential Oils Distiller
You can easily make your own essential oils and hydrosols with a distillation kit. It’s sad that we’ve lost this ancient and basic skill. In earlier centuries many homes had a ‘still room’, where herbs and alcohol were distilled, remedies prepared, and all…
6. H.P. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society
Blavatsky compared the science of her day, studied the world religions and came up with her own synthesis, which she called ‘theosophy’, or ancient wisdom. With Col. Olcott she founded the Theosophical Society, which played a significant part in the develo…
Welcome to Angry Birds. These are Real Angry Birds, not cute colorful cartoon characters that cavort in some game. And all of them are mad. Just look at their faces. You won’t find a smile anywhere in this crowd. So enter at your own risk. And be sure to k…
8. 17 Ways to Use Peanut Shells
Peanut Shells. What do you imagine can be done with a peanut shell? Let me tell you, you can do a lot more with a peanut shell than I ever imagined! As we being dreaming and planning to be future business owners of a brewery/pizzeria, we’re wading through…
If you want to learn how to hit a baseball, you probably won’t be able to talk hitting with Joe DiMaggio as my cousin John Finnegan (Sports reporter for York Dispatch 1954- 1986) did in this photo. However, if you follow these 10 tips for better hitting, y…
