We arrived more than two hours later than planned, but the west of England summer light had not yet faded even to dusk. A soft golden glow was just growing across the sunset, which had just tinged a flat-calm sea beyond this tumbling village. We were tourists here, strangers in this small, tightly-knit place.
For us [...]
Not only human are the main characters of jokes to crack laughter. Even animal behaves as the funniest part of the joke. As to say the fact, more than other jokes people like to enjoy the animal jokes.
It is such kind of jokes in with animals is fully responsible to create a laugh. Those non-verbal [...]
Sixth graders are at an interesting point in life: they are at the stage of disbelief.”Nuh uh.””No way.””Sure. Right.””Who said so?””Why?”A nine year old can ask why, and you can bet he or she means: “Why?” in a really serious “Why does that happen? Why does that work? Why does that mean that?” kind of [...]
Friday night, August 26
In the corner of the blue carpeted, concrete-walled room, a giant floor fan whines, pushing around sweat-odored air. The locker room stinks, but at least it’s air-conditioned. Sort of. It’s better than being outside in the late-day, late-August New Orleans sun. So, the Patriots of John Curtis Christian School, more than a [...]
The story of my business - Meetings with humor: How Not to take work seriously
Have you laughed today?
My name is Debbie Iancu Haddad (32), I’m a mother of two darling children, a phd student at BGU and I am a lecturer on humor and laugh yoga instructor.
I was born in Israel to a British mother & [...]
Do you get excited at the thought of putting? Does it give you a high to go to the range it spend an hour on your putting? I ask these questions leading into the idea that your putting could be costing you several strokes every round.
Now picture this scenario. How many times [...]
I could be regarded as an ‘Art Snob’. Indeed, until recently that is exactly how I would describe myself. My background, my training, my studies, have always focused on what was considered ‘high-art’ versus ‘low-art’.
However I find the immediate impact and potential of seeing my art online and even on the street beats the gallery [...]
No nation in the world knows how to enjoy itself quite like Spain, so at Christmas, the celebrations are naturally long and spectacular.
The Christmas season in Spain is of course religiously centred, more so than in England where pagan traditions of gift-giving and tree-decorating have overshadowed the true meaning of Christmas and the celebration of [...]