Marlene A. Mania

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• The Child Delights in Pretending to Be an Adult -- and the Adult Aspires to Reconnect with Being a Delighted Child, Pretending to Be Adult-Like

  9/18/2011

  Looking at life's irony: When we were children, it was the real-adult-world that we aspired to connect with; and when we are adults, it is the world of the child that we would like to reconnect with.
• To Appreciate All that We Do Have is Positively Essential

  8/1/2011

  It is easy to want what we don't have. It is essential, that we appreciate what we do have. Positively.
• Kenny Chesney -- a Summary About What Especially Makes Him an Appealing Performer

  7/3/2011

  This is a summary of what makes Kenny Chesney, one of my favorite country artists.
• Learned Skills and Gifted Talents Are Always Better when Shared and Applied

  6/6/2011

  Do you like to make this world a better place? Do you like to create something attractive and useful? Something improved? Something original? Applying our skills and talents 'positively', is always a good thing.
• Do You Get Lost in the Details -- Or, Do You Master Them?

  10/3/2010

  Values and priorities; quality and quantity; the big-picture and the finer-parts... What's it all about?
• Human Nature: 10 Things that We Humans May Do Because of Ritual and Tradition

  7/9/2010

  A list of 10 things that we humans may do because of ritual and tradition. Options, availability, and intention, are key.
• Technological Advances: The MRI and Google Earth 3D Imagery

  6/24/2010

  A comparison and opinion about the advanced technology that we use, to go where it used to be not feasible to explore - before the great inventors of those technological advancements, created ways to make it possible.
• A Review About an Unexpectedly Twisted Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray Movie

  6/17/2010

  "What about BoB?" is a hilarious comedy about a crazy patient, who inadvertently makes his normal doctor crazy; and '" a normal doctor intentionally, makes his crazy patient '" normal.
• Life is a Gift - and We Have Many Positive Choices

  6/16/2010

  Positivity... is the keyword, in this slant about living life with active action, by attitude; intention and choice - to achieve positive goals for happiness, prosperity, and posterity.
• To Apply Fire Vs. Kindness

  5/2/2010

  At what point in time do we allow our defense mechanisms and egos/personalities to draw the line - "fighting fire with fire" or "do unto others..."?
• Classic or Fad: A Tribute to Vintage Designer Jeans

  2/1/2010

  Reflecting on a remarkable trend that hasn't "faded-out" yet, it just isn't exactly like when we originally bought the apparel... A retrospective review of the type of jean-wear that was sooo body-hugging and aestetically pleasing, that you...
• A Summary of the TV Reality Program Wife Swap and a Slant About Diversity

  1/26/2010

  Family units can be harmonious or chaotic; rigid or unstructured; One wife-swapping reality TV program may show how one person's chaos can be another person's harmony.
• Life Imitates Art - and Simultaneously - Art Imitates Life - with Remarkable Replication

  1/20/2010

  My channel-surfing experience of a coincidence may only have been a result that happened by mere chance, w/out substantial meaning; however ironically, that does not mean that we can't get a subjective complex 'life and art' significant analysis from it.
• Double-Standards - the "It's OK for Me but Not for You" Inconsistency

  1/5/2010

  A look at how we humans may miss the point of the big picture, until we focus on our thumb or backyard.