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Urinalphobia and The New ADD — My Top 2 Pet-Peeves
(Note from Lee Cuesta: I am offering this light-hearted guest post amid this temporary national emergency with the intention that it might bring some humor and levity to your periods of self-isolation and social-distancing. As noted at the end, you … Continue reading
Where are they now?
The next step in my journey brings me to a town called Tualatin, in the state of Oregon, USA. I’ve gone kayaking on the Tualatin River many times. Nearby, in the marshy ground, the partial skeleton of an ancient mastodon … Continue reading
Posted in Asian Elephants’ Plight
Tagged A Rocha, Asian Nature Conservation Foundation, Avinash Krishnan, Bannerghatta National Park, Beehive Fences, Brian Keith, Elephants and Bees Project, endangered, Gajraj, Indian elephants, Kartick Satyanarayan, mastodon, migration corridors, Proboscidea, sculptor, target training, Tualatin, Wildlife SOS
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Lake Roesiger: Like paddling on both a “river” and lakes in one, single outing
We finally did it! And this is our last paddling trip for 2019. It is the last Sunday of October, the perfect autumn day, something we experience almost every year in the Pacific Northwest: an “Indian summer,” gorgeous summer-like days … Continue reading
Posted in Kayak Season
Tagged fishing, Indian summer, kayaks, Lake Roesiger, Pacific Northwest, paddle, paddling, solitary day
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King of the Elephants Regains His Freedom in India
By Lee Cuesta In 1953, a baby boy was born—weighing roughly 176 pounds (80 kilograms)—in the forests of India. Using their trunks, his mother and the other females assisted him to his feet so that he would begin nursing. He … Continue reading
Posted in Asian Elephants’ Plight
Tagged chopped tusks, ECCC, Elephant Conservation and Care Center, Executive Director Nikki Sharp, Gajraj, Ganesh, Ganesha, Geeta Seshamani, geriatric elephant, Hindus, ivory, Kartick Satyanarayan, Lee Cuesta, live elephant trafficking, Lord Ganesh, People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, poachers, poachers for live elephant trafficking, poaching, Queen of Aundh, Royal family of Aundh, Save The Elephants, temple elephant, temple of Aundh, The King of the Elephants, tusks, Uttar Pradesh Forest Department, Wildlife SOS, Wildlife SOS in India, Yamai Devi temple
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Two Ways That Millennials Have It Right In The Workplace
I used to get really annoyed whenever I would see those of the younger generation at work doing something on their smart phones — whether texting or checking Facebook or playing some game — as well as taking frequent and … Continue reading
Posted in Baby Boomer Insights
Tagged Baby Boomer, compartmentalized, emulate, Forbes, millennials, minimum wage, work ethic, workplace
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Seven Viking Days and Once: Once Are Selling Briskly!
Bill, my friend and colleague, loves books, and he’s so excited about Seven Viking Days that he is the only person so far who has bought TEN copies! Also, this is the first time that Bill has bought ten books from … Continue reading
November Secrets
This week, there is a lot of buzz on the Internet about voting machine fraud and manipulation. In my novel, titled Once: Once (or 11:11), I predicted the use of voting machine fraud to sway an election. This was published … Continue reading
Posted in Lee's Work
Tagged Armistice Day, Electoral College, Eleven, Tancredo, Veterans Day, voting machine fraud
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Is War a Replaceable Invention?
War is an event that forces humans to rapidly understand the effects and uses of certain tools, whether it be for good or bad. War causes advances to happen that otherwise may not yet exist in the modern day. It seems to be an invention that in the process of committing many atrocities for only the shallow gain of some organization, inadvertently lends itself to make people think in new, different ways in order to end said war. Without the catalyst that war provides, humans may not have advanced to the point they are today. War seems to be necessary to make humans try and create a better world for the future. Continue reading
Posted in Baby Boomer Insights
Tagged Jeffrey Kovac, Margaret Mead, Replaceable Invention, Robin May Schott
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Maintaining the machine in which I reside
My goal is 120 years. So I am half-way through my life, truly middle age. In order to achieve my goal, I need to maintain the machine in which I reside. I was visiting with my mother on her birthday … Continue reading
Posted in Baby Boomer Insights
Tagged Baby Boomer, colonoscopy, CoLyte, diarrhea, Lee Cuesta, longevity, sedation, Tai-Chi
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