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Jack Wilson - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Jack Wilson is an artist, writer, poet, musician, composer now living in Tempe Arizona.
He has translated many poems, stories and songs from English into Esperanto and has taught self-improvement, art, creativity and writing classes for adults in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa.
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- Goys - R - Us - How to Fit in
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] First you should get yourself a yarmulke already. This skull cap will indicate to your new in-laws that you respect their values and hat style preferences. Don't wear it until you need it, just have it.
- Affirmations For a Happier Life
[Self-Improvement:Affirmations] Affirmations can be used to develop more positive attitudes and actions. They need to be in the present tense and three persons. This article tells you how.
- Mildcats - How to Save Cats, Improve Your Life and Theirs
[Pets:Cats] Arizona State University`s Mildcats program saves abandoned cats on campus and gets them ready for adoption by seeing to their health needs and neutering them and getting all the necessary shots. Mildcats is served by faculty, staff and students, who give generously of their time and resources for the love of cats. Wild cats are not put up for adoption.
- Esperanto - A Language For Everyone - How it Can Benefit You, How it Can Benefit the World
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] The Esperanto language can help people all over the world to communicate better. This improved communication can benefit everyone in terms of smoother trade and diplomatic connections. It is easier to learn than national languages and huge numbers of people already can speak it. You can learn it too.
- Marcel Duchamp's Objets Trouves - Are They Art?
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Marcel Duchamp's Objets Trouves describes the ideas behind the found objects which Marcel Duchamp designated as art. Can a urinal truly be art or is it just junk? Is any art really original or is it just presented in a new way?
- Turkey - Wattle Goozle - I've Got You Under My Chin
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] Turkey-Wattle... talks about them turkey wattles under your chin, ya old buzzard, and what can be done about them. If ya gots the money. (Don't worry; the article is in regular English)
- Quality Time - How to Neglect Your Child and Get Away With it
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Quality Time describes the worst euphemism of the century and how cheaters prosper. If you are a habitual user of this term, you are not going to like this article.
- Improve Your Daily Life - 7 Easy Ways to Make Yourself Happier
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] "Improve Your Daily Life..." shows you how to quickly and easily improve your everyday life. It tells about ways to become healthier, happier, more attractive and more productive.
- Help Yourself Find Help
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] People often find themselves perplexed by problems which seem unsolvable. Using search engines such as Google, jux2 (searches Google, MSN and Yahoo and compares results) or others can be frustrating or rewarding. You need to be willing to try and re-try different combinations of words.
- Windy Words 1 - How to Give the Air to Words That Blow Smoke
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] Windy Words 1... How to avoid using terms which are typically found in the vocabularies of institutions and their spokesfolks trying to say absolutely nothing.
- Some Thoughts About the Existence of an Afterlife
[News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] How do we approach the idea of there being an afterlife? How do we live our lives in the best way possible? How can we be logical about such a complex matter?
- Relatively Sane Or Absolutely Bonkers? A Matter of Some Antics
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] A very intelligent friend of mine who has a mental illness remarked to me that 'sane' was the absence of symptoms of insanity. I protested that you can't define a term that way. I looked it up, and, of course, she was right, or at least that was one of the definitions. I called her to tell her that I found out she had a good case, she said, no, you were right; that's not a good way to define a word.
- Poems Times Six
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Poetry] Frida Spitting out her beauty and disgust, She jiggled ghosts and skeletons, Emptied blood and I was there. I cleaned up her mess, I fed her dog and I made her bed. I watered the garden by the pyramid And it blossomed.
- Six More Poems
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Poetry] Cold Billy Boston Boston Billy he went where he chose, Wearing white spats with his fugitive clothes. He spoke in that lingo that rang through his nose, And sang all the while in his upstairs hose. Cold Billy Boston, that's how they called him, No fellow friendlier than he was a friend, Yo Billy Boston, yo with your pride.
- Grandfather Knows Best - How to Make the Most of Gramps
[Home-and-Family:Grandparenting] Andy Rooney is the quintessential grandpa. He is also a rich and famous journalist who makes his living sitting in front of a desk and telling his adoring fans that there is not as much coffee in coffee cans these days. He is not without his detractors.
- Free Advice For All Ages by E-Mail and Forum
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Advice for and from people of all ages is available on the internet for free. This article suggests sites to visit for free advice.
- So You Want to Get Married
[Relationships:Marriage] Few people would sign or make any contracts if they had the choice. Contracts are arrangements which supposedly enable you to control other people and them to control you. Contracts freely entered into will always have benefits, obligations and disadvantages for both parties. They can only be meaningful if they have force behind them. That force usually is the law and its police and courts but may also rely on public sentiment, personal power and it can include withholding benefits and interfering with progress.
- Getting Even is Odd - Revenge is a Dish Best Served Not at All
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Philosophy] Getting Even... speaks to issues of vengeance, an eye for an eye, nyah nyah nyah, yo momma. What does one owe to society for his crimes? How does the world benefit from hurting its citizens? Should the state be a bully?
- Gershwin, Ravel, Grofe - How Blue Can You Get?
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] George Gershwin was a songwriter of popular music, a talented pianist and entertainer and wished to be a great classical composer. He had some success in that field with his folk opera Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F.
- It Was a Dork and Strummy Knight - A Story With Musical Jokes
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] It Was A Dork And Strummy Knight is a story whose characters are musical terms. It takes place in a forest in the time of knighthood and chivalry.
- Time: How a Person Can Organize a Year in a Day
[Self-Improvement:Organizing] Time: How a Person...tells ways to arrange your day, week, month, year, life so that everything flows smoothly. What are the most important things which are often sacrificed in the hurly-burly world?
- How Do You Know That is a Horse?
[Kids-and-Teens] As a teacher of elementary grades I was always trying to get the children to expand their thinking capabilities. I would ask impertinent questions such as, "How do you know that is a horse?"
- Equal Partners in Marriage?
[Relationships:Marriage] Are you really equal partners in your marriage? Learn ways to get along with each other in fairness and equality.
- Arizona Justice -The Case of the Unloaded B-B Gun
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] The case: Plaintiff sues Defendant for negligence in that her 11 year old son shot neighbor plaintiff's 10 year old daughter with a BB gun. The BB lodged in the girl's neck. This happened three years ago and the decision was made not to remove the BB, that leaving it there would be harmless.
- The Problem With Peccaries (Javelinas)
[News-and-Society:Environmental] Peccaries, also called javelinas are becoming an urban problem because people feel sorry for them and feed them instead of letting them forage for themselves. The animals can hurt pets and babies.
- When Grandma is Dying - What to Do With the Young Children
[Home-and-Family:Death-Dying] When Grandma (or anyone else close) is dying we need to consider the children's lack of sophistication about death. But children know more than we think and know it sooner than we realize. It is best to let them in on what is going on in the household to the degree that they can understand. If you conceal the truth, it only teaches them to do the same and that you don't have faith in them. When they are very young they need to cope on a fantasy level.
- Senseless Talking - How to Stop Sounding Like a Ninny
[Self-Improvement] Mark Twain (some say Abraham Lincoln) said: "It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." People may seem to want to hear what you are saying, but they mostly want to feel good about themselves. Instead of trying to look brilliant and appear to have the smartest ideas and the cleverest retorts, learn to find something to agree with in the words others say.
- Figs! - Where Are They?
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] I've had a hankering for fresh figs lately. What is surprising is that I have not thought about fresh figs for a long time. They have such a remarkable texture and taste. But where are they?
- Topkapi - Always on Sunday
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] Topkapi, the movie, is a heist film which takes place at the Topkapi Palace, now a museum, in Istanbul, Turkey. It was directed by Jules Dassin and features his wife Melina Mercouri (recently Minister of Culture in Greece) of 'Never on Sunday' fame, which he also directed and acted in.
- Be With You in a ".gif" - A Guide to Pronunciation Limbo
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] For years I have been in an ongoing tussle with friends over the pronunciation of the format.gif. I thought naturally enough that it should be pronounced with a hard g since it stood for graphical interchange format. By some serendipity now forgotten, I came across some information which shocked, shocked me and which I quote:
- Charlie Rose - Why the Secrecy?
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] Charlie Rose was on his way to Syria in March of 2006 to interview the Syrian president when he felt a serious shortness of breath. He was rushed to a hospital in Paris where he underwent mitral-valve replacement and very nearly died.
- Movie Making: Who Among You Shall Cast Sharon Stone?
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] How often have you seen a movie which was entertaining enough and beautiful to look at but the most important roles were played by actors who didn't fit? And the opposite; an actor who was so right for the role that it is hard to imagine how anyone else could play that part.
- Floppies - The Portables of the Past - YRU Still Using Floppies?
[Computers-and-Technology] Floppies-The Portables of the Past-YRU Still Using Floppies? is about the alternatives available to using floppies for carrying files around.
- Elders and Youngsters - Activities Together
[Home-and-Family] Elders and Youngsters-Activities Together is an article about ways to help seniors and children to interact in productive and satisfying ways. It includes games, activities and quiet time.
- Cry Over Spilled Caviar
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] Cry Over Spilled Caviar tells about the distress of a rich person worried about the poor and his spilled caviar. It concerns also the cats who share the penthouse and deals with important matters about class.
- Dissing Dissect
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] Dissing Dissect talks about the deterioration of our pronounciation. I mean pronunciation. You know what I mean.
- How to Lose an Argument - And Still Win!
[Relationships:Communication] From earliest times we are taught that we must be able to justify our actions even though often we really don't know why we do things, and if we are not right, we are very wrong and possibly stupid and maybe even worthless. One kind of argument involves deeply held beliefs; another involves preferences often based on moral values drummed into us from early childhood.
- I Flunked the Army - What Are YOU Gonna Do?
[Self-Improvement] I Flunked the Army-What Are YOU Gonna Do? is all about my failure to get the most from the opportunites presented to me as a draftee during the Korean action. It is a cautionary tale.
- Hypnosis - Authoritative Or Indirect?
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Some people have been told they are unhypnotizable. This article tells how people who are considered hypnotizable can be helped to benefit from hypnosis.
- Creating a Spanish Study Group (Applies to Any Language)
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] I took a basic Spanish class a while back and when the class was finished I wanted to practice. I asked the class members if anyone would like to join me. All ten of them did.
- The Cats Are in the Convent and All's Well
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] Some thoughts about my decision to put my two cats in a convent. This includes both rationale and technique in case any readers have similar thoughts.
- Coyotes - How to Control Them
[Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] Coyotes: How to Control Them tells about the increase in coyote populations and what to do if they encroach on your property. The article describes how to prevent attacks and how to deal with removing them from your area.
- Citizen Arcane - How to Unravel Orson Welles
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] Citizen Arcane...tells about the oddities behind the movies of Orson Welles, especially Rosebud and The Ambersons. There are all sorts of innovations in Citizen Kane, made by a 25 year old director; his first film.
- Windy Words 2 - More on How to Give the Air to Phrases That Blow Smoke
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] Windy Words 2 -... continues to explore how to avoid using terms which are typically found in the vocabularies of institutions and their spokesfolks trying to say absolutely nothing.
- Tennis Anyone? A Personality Test - Are You a Baseline Basher?
[Self-Improvement] Tennis Anyone suggests parallels between styles in tennis playing and the various ways people relate to each other in business and personal situations. Are you a Grimacing Grunter?
- Alcoholic - The Word
[Self-Improvement:Addictions] "Alcoholic-The Word" is about how we designate people with addictions. It suggests that we could do a lot better.
- Feng Fu-Kung Shui - Combining Interior Designing With Martial Arts
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] At last the authorities have signed the necessary papers and the design firm of Feng Fu-Kung Shui can move forward with its monumental effort to bring Kung Fu to its room arrangements and Feng Shui to its sweaty mats at the dojo. The new art will be known formally as Feng Fu-Kung Shui-do.
- Nam-Nam Chattering - A Story With References to Dracula, Nosferatu, Bethory, Usually in Anagrams
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] Nam Nam Chattering is a story full of anagrams about the legend of Dracula, Nosferatu, The Countess Bethory, the undead and such. The Duchesse Frantouse, for example is an anagram of Nosferatu. Schreck is the name of the actor who played Nosferatu in F. W. Murnau's classic movie. You should be able to find many if you are a fan of Dracula based movies and books.
- Amber Wakes Dublin - A Story With James Joyce References
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] This is a story about a woman private eye who travels to Dublin, Ireland to help her friends solve a mystery. Embedded in the story are over 100 allusions to the works of James Joyce, including; Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Chamber Music, and Stephen Hero.
- Cold Porter - Night and Day - A Drink For All Seasons
[Food-and-Drink:Wine-Spirits] Cold Porter... reviews porter, an ale of sorts, drink of the masses, especially in Dublin, Ireland, and specialty of U. S. microbreweries. Weigh Anchor here.
- Let the Sunshine in - Pruning Your Agenda
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] The reason I had time to indulge in that folderal in the description is that I have open spaces in my agenda. I was watching a TV show about gardening and I noticed that the pruners (how's that for a job title?) were taking out tree-size branches that were green and healthy. I wondered why. The pruners obligingly told me that it is to let the sunshine in so that the whole hedge will prosper.
- Substitute Teaching - Who Are You Today?
[Business:Careers-Employment] Substitute Teaching - Who Are You Today?-tells how to be a substitute teacher and how to survive the experience. It includes details on dealing with children, permanent teachers, parents and administrators without losing your mind or your job. Not necessarily in that order.
- Rescue a Cockroach From Your Cat - Humanely
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] "Rescue a Cockroach..." is a manual for saving the life of a cat-captured cockroach. This procedure requires adult supervision. No mouth-to mouth.
- Smokin' - How to Get Rich in Tobacco
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] Smokin' - How to...tells you how to make a fortune by showing tobacco companies how to improve sales. Detailed instructions help you through the process.
- Trashed Apartment - How to Restore Order After Chaos
[Home-Improvement] Trashed...describes how to organize the chaos in a trashed apartment in order to preserve the treasures and get rid of the trash. This entails scheduling, tools and equipment and the enlistment of friends and hired hands.
- Leaf Photos Manipulated - Cartoonify Your Shots
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Photography] Leaf Photos Manipulated-Cartoonify Your Shots illustrates how to turn ordinary photographic images into pictures that seem to tell a story in a cartoon-like way. Start with a camera that can take close-up shots.
- Planet Xanadar Perfecto - How to Make Yourself Glorious
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Planet Xanadar Perfecto-How to Make Yourself Glorious tells a story about a far off planet where everyone is perfect. It makes suggestions about how to become one of them. Or an alternative.
- Early Or Late - You're Both Neurotic
[Self-Improvement] Early or Late-You're Both Neurotic addresses the matter of being an early-bird or the tardy person and how our cultures deal with each. The early bird may get the worm but the tardy person gets the bird.
- Nixon's Bigger Mistake - The 1960 Election Non-Recount
[News-and-Society:Politics] Nixon's Bigger Mistake. What would the world be like today if Nixon had challenged the unbelievably close and suspect election results of 1960.
- The Dop - The Dogs Only Party - How to Elect a Dog to the Presidency
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] DOP tells about the best way to run the country in the future with a dog as president. There are many advantages to having a dog as president. Learn now how to vote in the next election.
- Dogs in the 'hood - Yo! What it is, What it Was and What it Should Be
[Pets:Dogs] Dogs In The 'Hood-Yo! What It Is, What It Was and What It Should Be is an article about the need for dogs to be properly trained and controlled for the sake of the neighborhood.
- Parade Float - No Truck - You Can Make it Better
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Parade Float-No truck suggests ways to make a successful float for a parade when you don't have access to a flatbed truck. The lack of a truck can lead to a more creative and exciting float. Maybe even a prize.
- How to Train Cats
[Pets:Cats] "How to Train Cats" tells about the daunting, seemingly impossible task of getting cats to follow any kind of rules. There are a few tricks that sometimes work. It also helps to have the patience of a saint.
- How to Write Limericks, Easily
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Everyone enjoys hearing limericks, if they are funny, but most people don't try to write them. It is not hard to do and can be a lot of fun to share them with friends or post them on the web. This article shows you how.
- Feeling Better
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Most of us want to feel better and look around for ways to do it. This article contains many suggestions for improving your daily life and feeling better physically and emotionally.
- How to Draw Birds Easily
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] How to Draw Birds Easily is about methods of drawing birds in simple cartoon-like form. To draw birds as Audubon did is very demanding and difficult. Even though his drawings were better as art than as objective science, they really did look a lot like the birds he claimed them to represent.
- Making Biscuits - Why Cats Do That Thing
[Pets:Cats] Making Biscuits...sort of explains why cats knead and all that strange behavior. Except purring; that we don't know anything about.
- Bloomsday - Celebrating James Joyce's Ulysses in Dublin and Around the World
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] James Joyce is one of the most celebrated writers in history and for good reason. Though his Finnegans Wake is incomprehensible, it is not more so than a Beethoven Symphony. But we don't ask a Beethoven Symphony to be easily understood because it isn't written in words.
- Esperanto Translations: Twenty-one Stories, Poems and Songs from the English
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] Esperanto Translations lists 21 stories, poems and songs ranging from James Joyce’s Araby and Eveline through Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening to the bossa nova song Girl from Ipanema.
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