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Time, Money or Your Life?

What do you have that can you give to others? We all have special skills, talents and time to give of ourselves to others. It is truly the hardest, most meaningful and most rewarding thing humans can do for each other. "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he ... [more]

Everyone Needs a Friend or Three… It’s Proven, People with Friends are More Happy!

A friend is a person who you can depend on, who is also a person you like and enjoy being with. Generally, friends share similar interests and have common opinions but they also enjoy open debates. Friends provide the alternate reality to your experiences and memories of what happened over the years. Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between two or more people. Friendship is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association. Friendship has been studied in academic ... [more]

The Family Bucket_List? Good Idea or Insurance Rate Increase?

It could all start in such a simple way, just a note on the bulletin board... Next thing, almost before you know it, you've agreed to step out of an airplane - to go skydiving? Good or Bad? How can you tell until you get your own bucket organized, plus now your future could depend on staying ahead of your family bucket and maybe the grand parents bucket too! The traditional family is now a wide-ranging unit of diversified interests and initiatives seeking new adventures, this + ... [more]

What’SUP with Paddleboarding?

STAND UP PADDLEBOARDING (SUP) This sport combines surfing with kayaking or canoeing. Originating in Hawaii, where surf instructors of the 1960s stood on longboards to keep watch on their students, it gives you a fresh perspective of the water and lets you peer into the water beneath your feet. The upright position provides a full body workout, while the width of the board makes it is easy to balance, allowing you to enter the same meditative state you'd feel paddling glassy water in a ... [more]

Going Down at Freaky (Terminal Velocity) Face-Flapping High Speeds!

Skydivers reach terminal velocity (around 190 km/h (120 mph).  How do you get your excitement? For me, just getting on an airplane is exciting enough. It would take an extreme emergency for me to jump out! Hobby or Sport, Skydiving is one of the most exciting things you can do. It's probably a natural for most peoples' Bucket List of things to do before they die. So why wait... maybe they can see what you're doing better from heaven? Either way I guess now with many blind and ... [more]