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Anything remotely family related or of interest to the authors extended family and friends.

Stefano Barone: cool guitar tunes

Stefano Barone does things I never new possible with a guitar. You can buy his CD at CANdYRAT Music. More modern guitar music for your browsing pleasure with CANdYRAT on Myspace. Wow, just wow… [More]

The Mayonnaise Jar and 2 Cups of Coffee…

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar… and the coffee… A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty [More]

Body Positive: Boosting body image at any weight

Body Positive: Boosting body image at any weight. I stumbled across this site, and tought it had some really valid content for everybody. I was especially intrigued by the section on Children and Weight. [More]

10 Things No One Tells You About Parenthood

10 Things No One Tells You About Parenthood… nough said ;P [More]

Risk and partnership

Risk and partnership

That’s what I call taking a chance! Not sure exactly where this pic came from (Update: here, from Getty Images), but it definitely carries a story. I immediately thought of the risks a couple has to take sometimes to keep a partnership going. Scary stuff eh… [More]

Mensline

Stuff recently published an article about the international Mens Health Week. In an interview with the Australian branch of Mensline, they discussed how mens counselling is often quite different in nature from womens counselling, a fact that can often be overlooked. They went on to say that “Men are also more comfortable with the anonymity [More]

Advice to Young Men from an Old Man

best of craigslist : Advice to Young Men from an Old Man I stumbled across this tonight. I’m sure I’ve read something similar before, but either way its pretty cool. Me, I’m young at heart . [More]

The wheels on the car go round and round…

Updated (Jan 2009): spellchecked and punctuation cleaned up …except when they get boosted from your car parked in your own driveway! This is exactly what happened on Saturday night to my flatmate! I got up on Sunday morning and got DJ up, did the normal breakfast things, then for some odd reason went to check [More]

How my blog got its name

Update (Jan 2009): from my original blog at http://snap-happy3216.blogspot.com replicated here since it has a nice photo Once upon a ti…. oh wait, thats for a make believe story. Well I’ve had several people ask about the name for this blog and so I decided to write it down. Not long before I started writing [More]

After a while…

After a while… After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t always mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises and you begin to accept your defeats with your [More]

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