Archive for June, 2009

Clinton: Lifting The Cloak Of Secrecy

By Guest Contributor
Location: Los Angeles – California

Alesteen Roedox Over the past ten years, tens of millions of dollars have been collected by Bill Clinton for the William J. Clinton Foundation.  From...

Reflections Of An Ongoing Journey

By Katie Herron
Location: San Francisco – California

Crossing the Mediterranean Savona – Italy to Bastia – Corsica 23 November 2007 Up the winding stairs I ran, two at a time, brushing the...

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The Base Of The Road

By Gary Sweeney
Location: Philadelphia – Pennsylvania

  I stand at the base of the road, staring ahead at things so much more grand than myself.  Behind me lies accomplishment.  Though miniscule in...

Where Is The Devil?

By Stanley J Dorst
Location: San Francisco - California

When we pray for God’s intervention, or guidance, or that God’s will be done, where is the source of the problem; i.e. what is the...

Letters To The Editor

By JO LEE Magazine

Morris Bloomfeld Historian Toronto – Canada THE DIGITAL DIVIDE, Spring ’09, proposes that criminality pervades society and explains all the changes in the economy. Being...

Summer Silence

By Vera Resnik

Listen -  to summer’s silence.  Do you hear its strong voice?  In the: wiggle of your toes free from shoes  water droplets sliding down a...

Mirrors

By Guest Contributor

I watched you sleeping drifting through yesterdays and finding the dreams you lost wrapped in gilded stardust. Your eyes flickered softly casting a show of...

It’s All In The Fingers Top Traders Hold Clue To Success In Their Hands

By Guest Contributor
Location: New York – New York

Horace Elrimron A longer ring finger than an index finger denotes a more successful financial trader, British researchers said in a study published in the...

Wassup ?

By JO LEE Magazine
Location: New York / San Francisco / Hong Kong / London/Tokyo / Rome / Toronto

Lovers of the English language might enjoy this. It is yet another example of why people learning English have trouble with the language. Learning the...

How Companies Got Their Names

By Maurice Hemming
Location: New York – New York

  Ever Wonder How A Company Got Its Name? Adobe – came from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house...

Mariatu Kamara – ADESTE Laureate 2009

By Josephina Lee Mascioli-Mansell

Once upon a time, it was not the Land of Oz.  It was neither Cinderella losing her slipper nor Mary with her little lamb, nor...

Using Childhood Memories To Understand The Economy

By Gail Regan
Location: Toronto — Canada

A nursery rhyme fascinated me as a child and has resurfaced in my thoughts, providing a guide to the economy. My memory of it is:...

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Lake Tahoe California

By Lois M Gordon
Location: Silicon Valley – California

Most of us travel hundreds and even thousands of miles away to visit beautiful locations even though we have them in our own backyards.  One...

Childhood Friends Of The Fifties

By Sally Anne Reisner

We played with dolls dressed in home sewn flannel pajamas and velvet dresses. We practiced our ABC’s on a wooden stand-up blackboard in the basement....